Super Lawyers — NYC Metro, Entertainment & Media Law 2025
Super Lawyers — NYC Metro, Entertainment & Media Law 2025
About Giancarla Sambo, Esq., LL.M.
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, Business Affairs Manager at The Washington Post, and legal counsel on global touring productions for Will Smith, Peso Pluma, and Mora. 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'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 15 at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe preliminaries.
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.
IMDb Credited · Latin Recording Academy Member · NYSBA Contributing Author
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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.
Giancarla Sambo
Consultations in English and Spanish · New York and San Juan
New York Office (By Appointment Only): 521 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1700, New York, NY 10175
Phone: (646) 536-4394 | (646) 960-9935
Puerto Rico Office: 15 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Suite 100B, #200, San Juan, PR 00901
Phone: (939) 759-0060
Email: info@giancarlasambo.com
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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