McDermott Will & Schulte thrives at representing collective management organisations, advertising groups, and television broadcasters on distribution advice, and licensing negotiations with technology companies and online platforms, and has a particular strength in streaming service design and marketing. In addition to its regulatory strength, the practice also advises on the acquisition of entertainment companies and joint venture establishment, with a cross-border scope. With a speciality in contentious media matters, practice leader Wolfgang von Frentz has led on compensation disputes, renumeration proceedings, and advertising law appeals up to the ECJ, in addition to advising on media regulatory compliance. Christian Masch is another leading name in the practice, and has a focus on data protection.
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Testimonials
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- 'Straight up feedback, super quick and precise responses.’
- ‘Christian Masch offers the perfect mix of pragmatism, practical but also well-founded advise. He is super service oriented and quick.’
- 'McDermott is extremely broad in their services, with our main focus on media law, we of course have various different themes like employment law or M&A and corporate law matters. We always received the best advice, by different lawyers who are involved for special cases outside of the media law area.'
- 'Wolfgang von Frentz and Christian Masch provide an exceptionally good, pragmatic service, with deep knowledge of the media industry. We have been clients of Wolfgang von Frentz for 20 years and will definitely continue to remain clients.'
Key clients
- Sport1 Medien AG
- ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
- Corint Media GmbH
- Corint Media GmbH
- IP Deutschland/RTL interactive
- ProSiebenSat1 Media SE
- RTL Television
- Sport 1 Medien AG
- Seven.One Entertainment Group
- SquareOne
- RTL II
Lawyers
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Practice head
Wolfgang von Frentz
Other key lawyers
Christian Masch