Susan Abramovitch
Canada Guide 2025
Band 1 : Media & Entertainment
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About
Provided by Susan Abramovitch
Practice Areas
Susan Abramovitch, a Toronto Gowling WLG partner, is one of the world’s leading entertainment and sports lawyers. Head of the Entertainment & Sports Law Group, her practice spans the music, film, television, theatre, fine arts, multimedia, videogame, sports, esports, metaverse/NFT and publishing industries.
Susan works with domestic and international clients delivering strategic advice on entertainment and sports law-related matters, drafting and negotiating agreements, advising on deal terms, structures and dispute resolution, counselling on international industry standards and managing rights acquisitions. Licensed to practise in Ontario, Québec and New York, she offers legal services in English and French.
Susan is also Program Director for Osgoode Hall Law School’s Entertainment Law and lectures at the University of Toronto’s law and music faculties.
Clients and peers consistently rank her as a leading lawyer in guides such as The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory, Legal 500 Canada, Who's Who Legal and Expert Guides/Women in Business Law.
Susan won the Lexpert® Zenith Award in recognition of her leadership and practice excellence. Toronto Life magazine named her one of Toronto’s 50 most influential.
Career
Years of Call: 1996 – Ontario
1994 – New York
1992 - Quebec
Personal
A former Governor of The Corporation of Massey Hall/Roy Thomson Hall.
Chambers Review
Canada
Susan Abramovitch is a highly accomplished Toronto-based lawyer who is distinguished in representing corporations and artists from the music, art, publishing and television industries in a variety of contractual and copyright matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Susan is excellent all around."
"Susan is the best lawyer we have ever worked with. She has far exceeded our expectations. Her expertise is unmatched and she has been instrumental in our strategic planning with partners."
"Susan is simply the best there is. Smart, fast, formidable (yet reasonable), thorough and operates with integrity at all times."
"Susan is excellent all around."
"Susan is the best lawyer we have ever worked with. She has far exceeded our expectations. Her expertise is unmatched and she has been instrumental in our strategic planning with partners."
"Susan is simply the best there is. Smart, fast, formidable (yet reasonable), thorough and operates with integrity at all times."