Three Covington Lawyers Named to Variety’s 2024 Legal Impact Report
April 18, 2024
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK—Variety has named Covington lawyers Mike Hill, Adrian Perry, and Robyn Polashuk to its 2024 Legal Impact Report. Variety’s Legal Impact Report profiles “entertainment’s top dealmakers and litigators.”
Mike is based in Covington’s New York office and advises media and technology companies and sports leagues, conferences, and teams in connection with a broad array of commercial and corporate transactions. He has extensive experience with complex television and video licensing and distribution agreements across broadcast, cable and streaming, with a particular focus on sports media rights agreements. This is Mike’s third consecutive year being named to Variety’s Legal Impact Report.
Based in Covington’s New York office, Adrian serves as co-chair of the firm’s Entertainment and Media Industry group, as well as its Music Industry practice group. He is also part of the firm's Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things initiatives, advising on deals involving AI-powered and internet-connected products. He is helping to shape the future of how content is created and consumed, and is an authority on digital content distribution issues, and on data collection and licensing, with a focus on the music, sports, TV, and film industries. This is Adrian’s third consecutive year being named to Variety’s Legal Impact Report.
Robyn is based in Covington’s Los Angeles office and serves as co-chair of the firm's Entertainment and Media Industry Group. She provides transactional and strategic advice on network and video programming distribution to leading studio, television and other media and technology companies around the world. Her practice focuses on the evolution of video consumption and is integral to how programming companies get their content to customers. This is Robyn’s fifth consecutive year being named to Variety’s Legal Impact Report.