Entertainment & Media Law Attorney ·
Business Affairs Executive
She has been the talent, the executive, and the attorney. She knows what is at stake because she has lived it.
3,000+
Agreements Negotiated
20
Years in Entertainment
& Media Law
Bar Admissions:
New York · Puerto Rico · Washington D.C. · 9th Circuit · U.S. Supreme Court
Essence · Washington Post
In-House
Experience
Giancarla's path to law ran through the airwaves. She began her media career in New York at WSKQ-FM 97.9 — La Mega, New York's number one Spanish-language radio station, advancing from production to on-air reporting.
She represented her community as Miss Puerto Rico, National Puerto Rican Day Parade Queen in New York, and later placed in the top 10 at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe Competition.
Those experiences taught her what a law degree alone cannot, how to read a room, how to represent a brand under public scrutiny, and what it feels like to be the talent whose name is on the contract. It is the reason her tagline is not a marketing line. It is the truth.
LL.M. — Entertainment & New Media Law
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
J.D. — Concentration in Contracts
Inter American University School of Law
M.A. — Broadcast Journalism
New York University
B.A. — Communications & Sociology
Fordham University · Minor: Latin American Studies
Fashion Law Summer Intensive Program
Fordham Law School
Giancarla Sambo is an entertainment and media law attorney and business affairs executive with nearly two decades of experience closing complex deals across television, streaming, live events, global touring, and branded content, in English and in Spanish.
She has served as in-house counsel at Essence Communications and Business Affairs Manager at The Washington Post. Before law, she built her career in front of the camera and behind the microphone, as a broadcast journalist, on-air talent, and pageant titleholder. That background is not a biography. It is what makes her different at the negotiating table.
More than 3,000 agreements. Portfolios exceeding $60 million. Nearly two decades of knowing what is at stake for the people whose names are on the contracts.

Giancarla Sambo, Esq., LL.M.
Current
Previous Boards

Available for keynotes, panels, executive roundtables, and workshops.
Giancarla speaks on entertainment law, media leadership, talent strategy, and business affairs across multicultural platforms. Presentations are delivered in English or Spanish and tailored to each audience.
Selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers List (2025–2026), Practice Areas: Entertainment & Sports Law; Media & Advertising. View Selection Criteria
Recognized by Top 100 Lawyers, Lifetime Achievement Selection (2024). View Selection Criteria
Named to the Top 100 Lawyers List, Attorney of the Year Designation (2022 & 2023); Featured Editorial Profile (2023), selection of the 164 Most Influential Attorneys in North America.
Included in Marquis Who's Who - American Law (2020–2021)
Selected to Super Lawyers
New York Metro
Entertainment & Media Law · 2025 & 2026
Top 100 Lawyers List - North America
Attorney of the Year · 2022–2024
Marquis Who's Who
American Law · 2020–2021
IMDb Credited
Legal Counsel · Time of Essence · OWN
Office Information
Giancarla Sambo, Esq. | Email: info@giancarlasambo.com
New York Office (By Appt Only): 521 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10175
Phones: (646) 536-4394 | (646) 960-9935
Puerto Rico Office: 15 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Suite 100B, #200, San Juan, PR 00901
Phone: (939) 759-0060
Serving clients across New York, including New York City (Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island), Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk), Albany, Schenectady, Saratoga, Buffalo (Erie County), Rochester (Monroe County), and Westchester County, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico (San Juan and Ponce).
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