Entertainment & Media
Entertainment & Media
Since 1997, Hylands has leveraged its solid foundation in traditional intellectual property (IP), commercial legal services, and dispute resolution to deepen its focus on industries centered on people and IP - including cultural entertainment, film and television media, and sports. It delivers full-industry-chain, end-to-end, and comprehensive professional legal services to clients, with particular expertise in handling large-scale, complex, and high-stakes cases and transactions.
After nearly 30 years of in-depth industry engagement, Hylands has consistently provided customized, integrated legal services to top-tier clients in the entertainment, media, and sports sectors, accumulating extensive and outstanding industry and market experience. In the face of emerging new business formats and technologies in the industry, Hylands’ legal team - backed by profound professional expertise - can accurately grasp the characteristics, business logic, regulatory priorities, and legal risks of new formats (such as live commerce, virtual digital humans, AIGC, and the metaverse) and new technologies (such as blockchain and artificial intelligence), providing robust support for clients to expand their business reach.
With its professional, efficient legal service team and diverse business portfolio, Hylands has earned wide recognition from the industry and clients. For many consecutive years, it has been rated as a leading law firm in this field (both domestically and internationally) by renowned legal rating agencies including Chambers, LEGALBAND, The Legal 500, and China Business Law Journal, establishing a strong market reputation and excellent standing in the industry.
“Hylands continues to distinguish itself for its IP expertise in the media, culture, and entertainment sectors. The firm boasts extensive experience in various transactions - such as equity acquisitions, financing, and investments - and dispute resolution. Its client roster includes internet companies, media groups, film production firms, and celebrities. Hylands provides robust litigation services to entertainment industry clients, representing them in IP infringement lawsuits.”
Services
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- Full-Field and Full-Industry-Chain Legal Services
- Hylands covers all segments of the entertainment and sports industries, including film and television, music, sports, artist management, gaming, and fine arts. Specifically, its scope includes film and television, short videos, music, live performances, sports, literature, fine arts, animation, gaming, performing arts and sports management, brand operations and advertising, merchandising and marketing, traditional and new media, e-commerce, and the internet. It offers clients end-to-end legal services, such as IP operation and compliance, new business planning and implementation, investment, financing, M&A and restructuring, resolution of complex disputes, and compliance management for both enterprises and individuals.
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- Industry Access and Investment and Financing Legal Services
- For private capital and foreign capital seeking entry into the entertainment, media, and sports industries, Hylands provides clients with access-related research and analysis, as well as investment structure design; it assists in completing the establishment of entertainment, media, and sports institutions, equity financing, M&A and restructuring, legal due diligence, and IPO advisory services; additionally, it offers professional legal services such as the establishment of entertainment, media, and sports funds, and the management and control of fund raising and investment.
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- Project and transaction legal services
- Hylands delivers end-to-end legal services to Chinese and foreign entities involved in projects such as films, TV dramas, micro-short dramas, variety shows, sports events, animation and games, concerts, music performances, live-action shows, plays, talk shows, education and training, auction exhibitions, IP licensing, derivative development, theme parks, film and television bases, sports and performance venues, live commerce, commercial events, and advertising sponsorships. These entities include project owners, investors, service providers, and operators. The services cover due diligence, investment and financing, production and distribution, ticketing management, construction and operation, licensing and authorization transactions, IP protection, and infringement analysis - with particularly extensive experience in cross-border and foreign-related transactions.
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- Personal IP Legal Services
- For individuals - including entrepreneurs, actors, singers, athletes, screenwriters, directors, songwriters, novelists, painters, photographers, artists, and internet celebrities/KOLs - and their partners, Hylands provides full-lifecycle legal services for personal IP and brand development, operation, and protection. These services include overall personal IP development and protection plans, protection of creative rights, performance contract management, endorsement services, business event planning, brand co-branding collaboration, advertising sponsorship negotiations, derivative product development, IP registration and protection, protection against personality right infringement, contract management optimization, public opinion monitoring and response, tax planning, and estate planning.
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- Comprehensive Compliance Legal Services
- Hylands provides clients with professional services across fields including intellectual property (IP), advertising and promotion, cybersecurity and data compliance, tax planning, criminal risk prevention and control, labor and personnel management, and trade secret protection. These services cover assessing and optimizing management processes, building compliance management systems, delivering compliance training, and conducting compliance audits; assisting in responding to administrative and criminal investigations; offering compliance legal consulting and dispute resolution; and conducting research on cutting-edge industrial legal policies.
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- Dispute Resolution and Criminal Defense Legal Services
- Hylands offers comprehensive, professional civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, and criminal defense services to clients in the entertainment, media, and sports industries. Its service scope includes representing clients in IP and personality right infringement disputes, IP contract disputes, entertainment/sports project & equity investment-financing contract disputes, corporate control disputes, shareholder liability and liquidation liability disputes, sports arbitration, as well as defending clients in other civil and commercial dispute cases and criminal cases.