Super Lawyers — NYC Metro, Entertainment & Media Law 2025
Super Lawyers — NYC Metro, Entertainment & Media Law 2025
Entertainment Attorney · Business Affairs Executive
Television · Streaming · Live Events · Branded Content
Bilingual EN/ES · U.S. & Latin American Markets
In a media organization, legal and business affairs sit at the center of every deal. Legal ensures the organization is protected. Business affairs ensures the deal gets done. The most effective practitioners do both, bringing the legal rigor of an attorney and the commercial judgment of a deal executive to the same table. That is the practice described on this page.
Giancarla Sambo is an entertainment and media law attorney with an LL.M. in Entertainment and New Media Law from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and a J.D. with a concentration in Contracts from Inter American University School of Law. She has practiced entertainment law for nearly two decades across talent agreements, content licensing, IP clearance, sponsorship, branded content, and cross-border transactions.
Her legal practice is built on a dual foundation of U.S. common law and Latin American civil law, which is rare in entertainment and essential for any media organization operating across U.S. and Latin American markets.
Bar Admissions New York · Puerto Rico · D.C. · Ninth Circuit · U.S. Supreme Court
End-to-end management of high-volume agreement portfolios across talent, licensing, sponsorship, vendor, and branded content, with the systems and workflows to keep them moving at scale.
Building and standardizing the contract infrastructure that media organizations need to execute deals consistently, including templates, approval workflows, compliance tracking, and outside counsel coordination.
Direct advisory to senior leadership on deal structure, risk allocation, and partnership terms, translating complex legal and financial exposure into guidance that drives business decisions.
Bilingual deal counsel for transactions spanning U.S. and Latin American markets, in English and Spanish, across U.S. common law and civil law jurisdictions.
Talent agreements, content licensing, IP clearance, distribution rights, and original content compliance across broadcast, streaming, digital, and live production.
Sponsorship, co-promotion, and branded content agreements integrating talent, IP, and creative rights into scalable partnership frameworks for Fortune 500 and emerging brand partners.
3,000+ Agreements Executed | $60M+ Portfolio Value | Nearly two decades of practice | Major Media Institutions
Attorney and executive — not one or the other
The legal credential is the foundation. The business affairs capability is built on top of it. Organizations get both in one engagement, legal rigor and commercial judgment, applied simultaneously to every deal.
Bilingual and cross-border by design
Native bilingual in English and Spanish. Fluent in both U.S. common law and Latin American civil law. For media organizations with Latin market operations, content, or partnerships, this is the foundation, not a supplement.
Operational fluency across the full organization
Having managed cross-functional deal teams across legal, finance, marketing, and creative, this practice understands how a media organization actually runs and builds legal infrastructure that works with all of it.
Industry fluency earned from the inside
A background as a broadcast journalist, on-air talent, and media executive means understanding the business from both sides, the creative priorities, the commercial pressures, and what is actually at stake in every deal.
Single-matter counsel for a specific deal, transaction, or contract portfolio review; defined scope, defined timeline.
Ongoing business affairs counsel on a monthly retainer, available for deal review, executive advisory, and legal operations support as needed.
Senior business affairs counsel operating inside your organization for a defined period, managing deal flow, building infrastructure, and advising leadership directly.
Giancarla Sambo, Esq., LL.M.
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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