Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — April 21, 2025, Greenspoon Marder attorneys Aliya J. Nelson, Sandra Brown and Alan S. Clarke have been named to Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers 2025 List. Billboard Magazine editors annually select a class of attorneys, nominated by their firms and peers, who are essential resources for the music industry’s rising artists, songwriters, and superstars alike.
Ms. Nelson brings more than 20 years of experience with a focus on transactional, licensing and regulatory matters. She has substantial experience in corporate and entertainment law, including representing companies, executives, and talent across the music, film, television, technology, sports, and cannabis industries. Ms. Nelson currently represents a number of artists, songwriters, and producers as well as independent labels, production companies, and agencies.
Ms. Brown focuses on providing strategic business counseling to clients who are award-winning recording artists, music producers, and songwriters in Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, and Christian music, as well as entertainment companies. She negotiates agreements across the complex and often interconnected areas of recorded music, music publishing, live performances, branding, television, and independent film.
Mr. Clarke concentrates his practice of over thirty years on entertainment industry matters, including contract drafting and negotiations, trademark and copyright sales and acquisitions, and corporate law, as well as infringement issues and breach of contract issues. He regularly represents and counsels entertainment companies, athletes, actors, performers, producers, writers, publishers, and artists.
Greenspoon Marder’s Entertainment & Sports practice group provides multidisciplinary and innovative legal counsel to clients in the entertainment, media, and technology industries across the United States. As trusted advisors to both creatives and businesspeople in the entertainment and sports industries, our team counsels clients in entertainment talent negotiations, providing outside general counsel services and assisting companies with corporate structuring, financing, operations, sales and acquisitions, trademarks, copyrights, employment advice, record contracts, music, and book publishing, and have extensive experience negotiating multi-million-dollar licensing, branding and media deals.