Pryor Cashman LLP

Media and Entertainment

Partner

Briana Hill is a partner and co-chair of Pryor Cashman’s Media + Entertainment and Film, TV + Podcast Groups; she is also co-chair of the M+E Transactions and Financing Practice.

Briana’s practice focuses on entertainment and media law, with an emphasis on company-side business and legal affairs and complex rights transactions for leading television and streaming, film, podcasting, and interactive clients. In addition to her work in structuring and negotiating the full spectrum of development, production, and licensing agreements, she provides strategic advice to studios, publishers, brands, videogame publishers, and other significant media companies on sophisticated, high-level rights and relationship matters.

Briana is sought after for her experience with first looks, overalls, joint ventures, and other multi-project arrangements between leading media companies and talent. She also works with both established and new entrant companies such as book publishers and toy brands in structuring and negotiating expansion strategies into those clients’ non-core areas of entertainment.

Clients value Briana’s tactical approach, strategic insights, pragmatic advice, balanced temperament, and fluency in the business and cultural differences between key entertainment verticals, utilizing her skills as a “translator” for cross-vertical dealmaking. She credits beginning her legal career in the independent film business and legal affairs with laying the professional groundwork for creative problem-solving and dealmaking, skills that are essential for counseling clients in the rapidly changing and constantly evolving entertainment landscape.

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (UCLA School of Law) (J.D., 2007) Articles Editor, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy Hunter College of the City University of New York (B.A., summa cum laude, 2004) Phi Beta Kappa