LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Times and The Envelope magazine named Covington lawyers David Lefebvre, Robyn Polashuk, and Neema Sahni to its Entertainment Business Visionaries list for the second consecutive year. The list honors the top professionals providing essential advisory services to key players in the entertainment industry.
Based in Covington’s Los Angeles office, David advises leading media and entertainment groups, broadcast stations, sports leagues, established and emerging technology companies, and other content owners in connection with content licensing and distribution agreements and media rights agreements. His practice covers a wide variety of platforms (including Internet/OTT/streaming, broadcast, cable, satellite, and mobile) and business models (including linear, video-on-demand, direct-to-consumer, and subscription premium).
Robyn is based in Covington’s Los Angeles office and serves as co-chair of the firm's Entertainment and Media Industry Group. She provides transactional and strategic advice on video programming distribution to leading studio, television and other media and technology companies around the world. Her practice focuses on the evolution of video consumption and is integral to how programming companies get their content to customers.
Based in Covington’s Los Angeles office, Neema serves as co-chair of the firm's Entertainment and Media and Commercial Litigation practices. Drawing upon her experience at the firm and her prior experience in-house, she specializes in handling complex commercial disputes for media, technology, and sports clients, and providing practical solutions that help clients manage risk and advance their business goals.