Sasha Levites

Practice Areas

Entertainment

Branded Entertainment

Celebrity Branding

Career

Sasha H. Levites is a partner in the Entertainment Group, where she focuses on motion picture, television and digital media work, representing talent, production companies and intellectual property owners.

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 works closely with intellectual property owners to help maximize the value of their rights in an ever-changing marketplace. 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, as well as 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 is recognized by Variety in its 2022 Legal Impact Report, Best Lawyers in America in the 2023 and 2024 editions of “Ones to Watch” for Entertainment and Sports law, and in the 2022 and 2023 editions of The Legal 500 for her expertise in media & entertainment law. She was previously recognized in Variety’s 2019 “40 Under 40” New Leaders List, and in the Up Next List of Variety’s 2017 Dealmaker’s Elite New York Report. Since 2016, she has also been recognized in Super Lawyers magazine as a New York-area “Rising Star” in the Entertainment & Sports field. Ms. Levites currently serves on the Creative Executive Council for the NYU Production Lab.

Ms. Levites is admitted to practice in New York.

Education