Greenspoon Marder Attorneys Named to Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers of 2025

Apr 21, 2025

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.

About Greenspoon Marder

Greenspoon Marder LLP is a full-service law firm with over 225 attorneys and more than 20 office locations across the United States. With operations from Miami to New York and from Denver to Los Angeles, our firm attracts some of the nation’s top talent in key markets and innovation hubs. Our core practice areas include Real Estate, Litigation, and Transactional Services, complemented by the capabilities of a full-service firm. Greenspoon Marder has maintained a spot on The American Lawyer’s Am Law 200 as one of the top law firms in the U.S. since 2015, and our goal is to provide exceptional client service by developing a thorough understanding of each client’s business needs and objectives in order to provide strategic, cost-effective solutions.

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