The attorney
Obi Ollawa
Managing Attorney — entertainment, intellectual property and business counsel.
Obi Ollawa represents artists, musicians, writers, producers, directors and other talent across the entertainment business. He specialises in transactional agreements and intellectual property — trademarks, copyrights and their enforcement — and in business formation and maintenance for clients.
- Admitted to practice
- California
- Education
- Dickinson College, B.A.
- Southwestern Law School, J.D.
- Focus
- Entertainment · IP · Business · Estate
Entertainment
For more than nine years, Obi Ollawa has advised businesses, entrepreneurs and creatives on business strategy and contracts for services and goods. In music, he negotiated and drafted festival bookings, endorsements and publishing agreements — including BEATS: SremmLife 2 Listening Party, MTV’s Wonderland, Observatory’s Day n Nite Fest, Agenda Trade Show, VFiles, Adidas brand events, SXSW, ComplexCon and Boiler Room. He has represented clients in recording, publishing, distribution and 360 agreements. In TV and film, he has handled literary purchase, actor talent, director, producer, joint venture and production development agreements.
Intellectual Property
Obi has worked in copyright, trademarks, licensing, IP acquisition agreements and enforcement notices for over five years. He was responsible for the research of the literary copyright infringement cases behind “Death of Copyright, Part III”, a legal article authored by Mr. Steven Lowe. More recently he has represented and protected intellectual property for clients in the Web3 industry.
Business Formations & Maintenance
He has extensive experience forming limited liability companies, corporations, S-corporations and not-for-profit entities, and maintaining them once they are running.
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