Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Sasha H. Levites is counsel to the Entertainment Group, where she represents clients in the film, television, theatre, and publishing industries.

Ms. Levites handles a broad range of transactional entertainment and intellectual property matters, with a focus on advising clients in the film, television and digital media industries. She represents writers, directors, producers, documentary filmmakers, motion picture studios, distributors and private equity financiers, and counsels unscripted production companies on their day-to-day production legal needs. Ms. Levites is experienced in structuring and negotiating film and television development deals, talent agreements, co-production and financing agreements, rights acquisition, content distribution and foreign sales agreements, and all forms of production legal releases.

Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Levites served as Manager of Business and Legal Affairs for FilmNation Entertainment where she negotiated international film sales and distribution agreements for award-winning titles such as “Nebraska” and “The Imitation Game”, along with motion picture finance and development deals. Ms. Levites also spent time in the Business and Legal Affairs department at MTV, where she focused on international content distribution and format licensing for the music networks.

Ms. Levites was included in the Up Next List of Variety’s 2017 Dealmaker’s Elite New York Report, and since 2016 has been recognized in Super Lawyers magazine as a New York-area “Rising Star” in the Entertainment & Sports field. She currently serves on the Creative Executive Council for the NYU Production Lab.

Ms. Levites is admitted to practice in New York.