With over 25 years of legal experience, Attorney Thea Kerman helps business owners and artists grow their businesses and enhance their careers.
SOLUTIONS TO BUSINESS PROBLEMS
Focused on entertainment, licensing, publishing, merchandising, and the toy industry, Thea Kerman, Esq. furnishes strategic advice to clients, helping them structure business transactions and advising them on creative, practical and cost-effective solutions to business problems. She provides sophisticated legal services equal or superior to the quality of the legal services provided by larger law firms, but at a reasonable price within the client’s budget. She believes in closing transactions quickly and with efficiency without sacrificing the highest quality of professional standards.
CLIENTS FIRST
Thea Kerman, Esq. always focuses on the unique needs of each client. Whether the client is large or small, public or privately held, start-up or well-established, each receives personal attention tailored to that client’s particular needs.
Testimonial
“Thea Kerman, Esq. is simply the best of the best. Thorough, efficient, cautious and experienced. Our one and only motion picture attorney. ”
Film & Television
Thea Kerman, Esq. provides legal services for major studios, broadcast and cable television networks as well as independently produced films.
Toys & Licensing
Thea Kerman, Esq. structures and negotiates agreements for the purchase, sale and/or license of toys and games along with non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements.
Documentary
An experienced intellectual property lawyer, Thea Kerman, Esq. counsels documentary filmmakers on fair use under the United States Copyright Act.
Branding & Merchandising
Thea Kerman, Esq. protects clients’ brands with strategic counseling with respect to their copyrights, trademarks, and service marks including registration programs.
Theater
Thea Kerman, Esq. consulted for Marvel Comics in connection with the popular Broadway musical based upon the comic book character Spider-Man.
General Business & Nonprofit
Advising on all areas of business including methods of financing, Thea Kerman, Esq. also helps non-profits incorporate and qualify for exemptions from federal taxes and provides general legal counsel.
Thea Kerman, Esq. currently resides in New York and is a member of several professional organizations including the Producers Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television (where she served as Treasurer and on the Board of Directors), the New York Production Alliance (where she currently serves as Secretary and on the Board of Directors), and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (where she served on the Entertainment Law Committee and on the Copyright Law Committee).