For 20 years, Elsa Ramo has been at the intersection of entertainment law and content innovation, architecting groundbreaking deals for industry disruptors and major studios alike.  She guides her clients into innovative terms that optimize their reach and prevalence with reputable velocity. In an era where content comes in an increasing number of forms, Ramo’s ability to successfully monetize the deal for her clients sets her apart on this evolving frontier. Ramo provides comprehensive legal services to producers, financiers, creators, and owners of film, television, and digital content and projects across a range of budgets and production levels. She established her own law firm to enable up-and-coming filmmakers and producers to bring their stories to life.

In her leadership of production legal for such works as the recent festival films Oh, Canada and Eden as well as Skydance’s Reacher, Foundation, and FUBAR, Partner Erika Canchola optimizes her clients’ financial, legal and business position in the financing, production and exploitation of their content. Canchola serves as outside production counsel for Skydance Television and currently advises several producers of short- and long-form content slated for theatrical, television and new media platforms.

Nicole Compas brings her native New Yorker’s touch to RAMO’s bicoastal representation of indie productions, writers, producers, and directors by leading the firm’s New York office. She represents clients in projects with Netflix, Apple, Hulu and HBO such as Imagine Documentaries, Concordia and Push It Productions. As production counsel, Compas leverages her dealmaker skills for clients working across platforms on the East and West coasts. Her credits over the past decade span more than 100 independent films, TV series and specials, new media, documentaries and music, including Jim Henson: Idea Man, Girls State, Diarra From Detroit, The Dynasty: New England Patriots, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman, Frida, Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer, Unstoppable, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, the winner of a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.

Providing guidance and advice to financiers and distribution companies, Zev Raben brings his depth of legal experience to bear for his clients in all aspects of their varied businesses. Recently, Raben has done financing legal work on Terrifier 3, which debuted number one in the domestic box office, Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman of the Hour (TIFF Premiere in 2023, which debuted #1 on Netflix), and Fing!, featuring Taika Waititi based on the David Williams’ children’ book of the same title. While his practice is primarily focused on representing financiers and distribution companies, Raben also assists producers in all areas of their creative pursuits. He has worked with producers whose films have been recognized by Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. His experience as an entertainment litigator equips him well to identify potential issues early on in transactions. 

Chad Russo counsels production and distribution for companies such as Unified Pictures and Citizen Jones, and has worked on films such as Fury and Dragged Across Concrete. His focus on developing emerging media is especially useful to the firm. Russo has represented podcast producers and creators for critically acclaimed podcasts such as Limetown, The Wilderness, Black List, and Guys We F***ed, with associated companies such as Crooked Media, Luminary, Ninth Planet, Paragon Collective, and Action Park Media.

Jackie Ward is a trusted advisor to producers, financiers, and production companies, representing clients across the full lifecycle of content creation, financing, and distribution. Her practice spans complex financing and production structuring, rights acquisition and chain of title, production legal, and strategic intellectual property counseling. As the only attorney embedded within RAMO’s Content & Media Strategy team, Jackie works at the intersection of legal strategy and business strategy, advising clients on the development, financing, positioning, and long-term value of content across traditional film, television, and emerging media.

Natalie Locke advises producers, production companies, financiers, talent, and media companies across film, television, digital media, music, and branded content. With more than fifteen years of entertainment and media legal experience, her practice includes production legal, development, financing, rights clearance, chain of title, distribution, licensing, publishing, soundtrack, intellectual property, artificial intelligence and general business affairs matters.

Natalie has served as development, financing, production, and distribution counsel on more than fifty scripted and unscripted features, series, specials, and branded content projects released on major platforms including Apple TV+, HBO Max, NBCUniversal, Netflix, PrimeVideo and Disney/Hulu. Recent production counsel credits include Good Sports: Season One (Hartbeat), Kevin Hart: Acting My Age (Hartbeat), Hart to Heart, Season Four (Hartbeat), Mr. Scorsese (Presser Films), Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order (XTR/Asteria), Diane Warren: Relentless (XTR/Asteria), Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (XTR/Asteria), Trophy Wife: Murder On Safari (XTR/Asteria), Stress Positions (NEON), Homeroom (Concordia), and the Ringer Films Music Box Film Series (Ringer Music Box). Natalie is also a consulting producer on the Frontline/Ramona Diaz’s documentary And So It Begins, which premiered at Sundance.

Natalie skillfully works with producers, executives, talent counsel, financiers, distributors and production teams to structure deals, resolve rights, clearance, guild, and union issues, and move projects efficiently through development, production, delivery, and exploitation. She is skilled at high pressure complex negotiations, and previously practiced as a copyright and trademark litigator.

Anthony Glukhov provides his clients with business and legal affairs expertise in nonfiction and scripted film and television series, podcasts, and short-form content, working with production companies like Boardwalk Pictures (Paul American, Chef’s Table, Welcome to Wrexham), Abu-Dhabi based Image Nation (Hokum, The Vile, Late Night with the Devil, Watcher), Imagine Documentaries (Earnhardt), and Park Pictures (Soul Patrol—premiering at Sundance 2026) as well as independent directors, producers, writers, and other content creators. Glukhov’s breadth of experience allows him to be instrumental to solving the needs of his clients throughout various stages of projects, from development, financing, production, and post-production to final delivery and distribution.

Elliot Hill brings his expertise as a corporate attorney in London and Los Angeles to provide strategic advice and counsel to film producers, financiers, and media entrepreneurs. Hill focuses on supporting producers in optimizing corporate structures to manage a project’s intellectual property rights, ownership, control, and recoupment. Projects range from single picture vehicles for first time filmmakers, to complex film funds investing in a portfolio of projects and multi-party joint ventures for media-adjacent initiatives. Hill also works with film financiers to structure equity and debt funding on projects, more significant loan syndication transactions, and tax credit financing. Hill combines industry expertise with a business practical approach to enable filmmakers to navigate the corporate landscape and focus on their creative endeavors.  Hill is licensed to practice law in both California and England & Wales. 

Geoff Lee is a former creative producer turned attorney who helps clients bring their ideas to life across all media platforms. As general counsel to companies like Scout Productions, Skydance Sports, The Comedy Store, and Boardwalk Pictures, he negotiates major deals and supports high-profile projects including Welcome to Wrexham, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, and America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys.  Lee also specializes in brand partnerships, connecting entertainment with consumer products for properties like Chef’s Table and Queer Eye. He represented Boardwalk Pictures in its minority stake sale to Shamrock Capital and was named a Legal Visionary by the Los Angeles Times and one of Variety’s Hollywood New Leaders in 2022.  His writing has been featured in Georgetown University’s Entertainment and Media Alliance Law Review. 

Legal professional, academic, and art enthusiast, Michael Peters focuses on the complex and nuanced interplays between media, formats, and mediums of the modern entertainment industry. With a specialty in music rights management, media financing, and dispute resolution, Peters is uniquely positioned to advise and advocate for modern artists, content creators, and entrepreneurs who wish to build their brand and media presence empire.  Peters represents a wide variety of clients in negotiating complex agreements and disputes relating to music production, music distribution, media finance, music publishing and administration, film and TV production and distribution, multi-media licensing, and generative artificial intelligence. 

Alyssa Alarab is a business and legal affairs attorney specializing in scripted and unscripted television and film projects, with a focus on shepherding productions from development through final delivery while balancing creative priorities with commercial objectives. From clearance review to creative collaboration, Alyssa's practice is built around helping creators take a concept from the page to the screen with the rights, releases, and risk strategy in place. Drawing on her in-house experience leading business and legal affairs for high-profile unscripted television productions at Lionsgate, Alyssa brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to negotiating talent, producer, director, and licensing agreements, and to resolving on-set legal issues in real time.

Blayne DeGiovanni provides production legal and development counsel for scripted and unscripted projects and offers a tailored and creative approach when working with production companies as well as independent producers, writers, and other creators.  From her experience on the talent and management side, managing the global contracts department of a booking agency in live and streaming performances, television production, and other commercial project, Blayne's 360-degree review of contracts helps our clients identify and address risks.  In her time at Ramo, Blayne has provided production legal for 2025 Cannes Premiere The Plague, 2025 Tribeca Premiere Yanuni, and 2024 TIFF premiere Relay.  She has also had the privilege of working on projects such as Ronny Chieng: Love to Hate It, Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall, and Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things on Netflix, Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years on Hulu, Emmy-award winning program Girls State, and 2024 Sundance premiere Alok.

Los Angeles native Michael Segal is known for his innovative approach to scripted and unscripted production legal, trademarks, and emerging tech. He advises on lender- and producer-side dealmaking, with credits including The Kill Room,  Terrifier 3, Babies, Via Negativa, The Heart Brake, and At The Center.

For over 10 years, Lindsey Roth has supported writers, directors, and producers in the development, production, and distribution of film and television productions. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating writer agreements, shopping agreements, option/purchase agreements, director agreements, producer agreements, sales agency agreements, and distribution agreements. Lindsey collaborates with clients to identify deal structures that will achieve their goals while protecting their interests.

For more than 15 years, Monica has supported studio attorneys for development, productions and distribution of film, television and digital content.  Her experience includes preparation of production-related, licensing and distribution agreements, as well as contract administration, corporate governance, copyright infringement claims and rights management systems.

Aila Kim provides support to the media finance, corporate, and music teams. Her work spans the full range of the firm's transactional activity, including film and media financing, corporate structuring for independent productions, and music rights and publishing. Kim works alongside attorneys whose clients include major film financiers, independent producers, and content creators.

With a foundation that began as an executive assistant and evolved into hands-on legal support, Jackye serves as a trusted paralegal at Ramo, supporting production legal matters across the entertainment industry with a focus on non-fiction and unscripted content. Working out of the firm’s New York office, she directly supports Nicole Compas and assists with a wide range of production legal needs, bringing a sharp eye for detail, adaptability under pressure, and a deep understanding of the fast-paced nature of film and media production.

With a background in litigation and transactional matters for both employees and employers, Lindsey Wagner brings her extensive employment law experience to Ramo Law. She advises clients on a broad range of matters, including employment deals, employment and severance agreements, AI integration, data privacy, and all aspects of employment compliance.