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Hillary is a business, consumer brands, sports & entertainment and technology attorney. Hillary represents sports & entertainment talent, entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and established brands as well as angel, venture capital and private equity investors. She serves as the Chair of the firm’s Business, Sports & Entertainment and Consumer Brands practices. Hillary counsels clients on a full range of matters, from day-to-day operational concerns to sophisticated transactions. Like the innovative entrepreneurs, talent and brands she advises, Hillary strives to bring creative yet practical strategies to legal services, assisting clients with brand and asset protection, risk management and dispute resolution. The matters on which she counsels are often cross-border in nature. The clients of Hillary’s practice include entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and established brands as well as angel, venture capital and private equity investors. She has a broad transactional background, advising business clients with a variety of matters, including corporate structure, capital raising and financing, commercial matters, intellectual property matters, mergers and acquisitions and other exit transactions. Hillary works with brands disrupting their categories and those developing innovative technology as well as the investors supporting those brands. Hillary’s Consumer Brands practice focuses on advising clients across a variety of consumer goods sectors, including food & beverage; vitamins, minerals and supplements; pet food and accessories; health, beauty and wellness (including cosmetics and skin care); fashion, apparel, footwear, jewelry, handbags and accessories; consumer electronics; toys and games; housewares and home goods; and more. Her Food & Beverage practice focuses primarily on better-for-you, natural, organic, plant-based, vegan, cultivated, cultured meat or cell-based meat and food tech category. Hillary’s Food & Beverage practice produces a weekly publication focusing on legal and regulatory matters, market trends, operational matters and transactions in the start-up and emerging food & beverage industry called the Emerging Food & Beverage Update. Her Health, Beauty & Wellness practice also produces a weekly publication focusing on that sector. Subscribe here. Hillary also advises international brands expanding into the United States, as well as investors and vendors partnering with those brands. She counsels these clients on operational concerns and sophisticated transactions including raising capital, intellectual property development and protection, manufacturing/packing, broker, distribution, supply and other services arrangements as well as on other commercial matters and exit transactions. Hillary supports clients on launching, investing in, scaling and protecting their valuable brands in a global marketplace. She provides boutique-quality specialized industry knowledge and experience backed by the resources of a full-service mid-sized law firm. Hillary understands that effective representation involves leveraging a variety of areas of law to accomplish the objectives of the brands she services. With the increasing trend of brands and celebrities to partner, she often finds her Consumer Brands and Sports & Entertainment practices intersecting and assists brands or their celebrity partners on investment and/or endorsement transactions. Hillary’s Sports & Entertainment clients include new and established athletes, recording artists, actors, television personalities, writers, television producers, music producers, songwriters, journalists, broadcasters, photographers, fashion designers, chefs and talent agents and managers. Her counsel to them spans a broad range of services on matters such as brand and intellectual property protection and licensing, services arrangements, rights acquisition and disposition, entrepreneurship and investment and post-career planning. In Hillary’s technology and Artificial Intelligence practice, she combines a passion for innovation with her emerging technology insights to assist clients with unlocking technology and AI's potential while mitigating its legal risks. She works closely with investors and businesses across diverse industries, advising them on technology and AI’s legal intricacies so they can make informed decisions about how to responsibly leverage it within their enterprises. Hillary guides her clients across the complex technology and AI landscape by providing counsel in a number of areas that include commercial, intellectual property and corporate transactions. When not serving her clients, she dedicates time to pro bono service to both non-profit organizations and individuals unable to afford legal services and serves as a volunteer to a variety of public charities. Hillary’s involvement in the legal community includes membership in local bar associations such as the New York County Lawyers’ Association, where she served as chair of its Corporation Law Committee for seven years. She is also a member of the Sports, Entertainment and International Law and Practice Sections of the American, New York State and New York Women's Bar Associations. Hillary is also a member of the Sports Lawyers Association and the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association and the Jewish Lawyers Guild.
