Legal Services
Entrepreneurs, Businesses, & Start-ups
As a business leader, you want to focus on running your business, but you must have the proper legal structures in place to protect the assets, Intellectual Property, and wealth you are working diligently to create. John A. Gibson, Esq, is an experienced business attorney who provides strategic guidance, counsel, and legal services to help your company develop and implement creative, cost-effective solutions.
- Company Formations, Contracts, Intellectual Property Transactions and Agreements, Trademark Prosecution, Employment Agreements, etc.
- John A. Gibson, Esq, has served as in house counsel at two rapidly growing companies in the financial and Technology Industries and as outside general counsel to a variety of companies in the technology, Sports, and Entertainment industries.
- Prenuptial Agreements.
Sports & Entertainment
Our Sports & Entertainment Services Include:
- Contract Negotiation: Collective Deals, NIL Deals, Professional Athlete Employment Agreements, Distribution Agreements, Record Label Agreements, Management & Agency Agreements
- Publicity Rights
- Terms of Use
- Watchdog Protection Program®
- Nonprofit Organization Formation and Governance
- Prenuptial Agreements
College Athletes (NIL)
For College Athletes, John A. Gibson, Esq, and Gibson Legal provide you with the crucial counsel, advice, and guidance you need in the ever-changing college sports marketplace. This includes:
- NIL Collective Deal Counseling, Pre-draft Counseling, and Combine Preparation for NFL and NBA Draft-eligible college athletes, as well as negotiation of contracts for college athletes while in college, as drafted players, or as free agents.
- We advise student-athletes, families, parents, and their management teams or agents on navigating collegiate and state-level Name, Image, and Likeness laws as well as NCAA requirements while ensuring that student-athletes can access and utilize the benefits of their brand value.
- Prenuptial Agreements.
- NCAA & NAIA Eligibility issues and/ or sanctions.
Professional Athletes
Professional Athletes need more than an agent, especially as their brand becomes a major financial asset. Our services include:
- Negotiating NBA and NFL contracts, negotiating and drafting commercial endorsement contracts, counseling free agents on team selection;
- Crisis Management;
- Power of Attorney, Healthcare Directives, Estate Planning, and other General Legal Services;
- Tax Preparation; and
- Workers’ Compensation, Labor Grievances, Line-of-duty Disability Claims, Medical Management.
- Prenuptial Agreements
Creators
As a creator, the Intellectual Property you produce is your livelihood! As a creator in the entertainment world, you should be able to execute your ideas without worry. John A. Gibson, Esq, has the expert knowledge and dedication to help you protect the assets you are creating.