Devereux Chatillon
Specialties: Licensing, Intellectual Property, Entertainment Law, Copyright Law,
Data Privacy, Digital Media, General Counsel
Partner, Co-Founder
Devereux Chatillon is an experienced media and intellectual property attorney who specializes in the area of copyright and trademark counseling; strategic positioning and risk management; and litigation advice, including commercial as well as content related. She works with large and small companies, including established firms and start-ups, to advise them on the use of every kind of content, from digital to traditional print, including licenses, rights and litigation. She also creates new templates for applications and content use across all platforms and provides general advice to clients in identifying and helping minimize legal risk.
Dev has spent many years at the highest levels of the corporate world, working at Callaway Digital Arts, Inc. (as VP Business Development); Scholastic, Inc. (as Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary & General Counsel); Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (as Partner); Miramax Films (as Executive Vice President); The New Yorker (as Vice President & General Counsel); and ABC (as Senior General Attorney).
Educated at New York University (JD, Law), where she served on the NYU Law Review, and Harvard University (AB, American History), Dev lives and practices in New York City. She is a Adjunct Instructor in the Masters Program in Publishing at the NYU School of Continuing Professional Studies. Dev is member of the Board of Trustees of the Practicing Law Institute, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Pro Bono Committee. Dev is admitted in New York. She is not admitted in California.
Sample representations include New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc., Hachette Books, How2Media, Inc., and the producers of "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Lisa Weiss
Specialties: Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances, Venture Capital Transactions, Licensing and Distribution Agreements and General Corporate Counseling and Commercial Agreements in the Media, Entertainment, Digital Media and Technology Sectors
Partner, Co-Founder
Lisa Weiss is a founding member of Chatillon Weiss PLLC. She specializes in corporate and commercial transactions in the media, entertainment, and digital media sectors, including merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, license, distribution, development, master services, and other commercial agreements, debt and equity financings, and general corporate and strategic counsel. Her clients include companies in the music, music publishing, film, television, games, social media, advertising, digital distribution, and technology industries, as well as private equity investors active in those industries.
Lisa brings to her practice a combination of years of experience as a partner in large New York corporate law firms and as general counsel of a major music company. Prior to forming Chatillon Weiss, Lisa was a corporate/venture technology partner in Dentons US LLP's New York office, and previously served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Sony Music Entertainment.
Lisa graduated from Columbia University School of Law (J.D.) and Yale University (B.A., Philosophy and Political Science). She is an active member of the Copyright Society of the USA and is admitted in New York.
Sample representations include:
- 1091 Media LLC, in connection with its sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment
- FilmNation Entertainment LLC, in connection with Roadshow Films' $18 million investment in FilmNation
- The Orchard Enterprises, Inc. in connection with the sale by Dimensional Associates, LLC of The Orchard to Sony Music Entertainment
- EMI Group Ltd. as U.S. local counsel in connection with the sale of its music publishing operations to Sony/ATV Music Publishing and the sale of its recorded music operations to Universal Music Group
- Imagem C.V., one of the world's leading independent music publishers, in connection with its acquisition of the Richard Rodgers (non-Hammerstein) music publishing catalog
- WiredSet in its sale of assets, including its Trendrr analytics platform, to Twitter
