Mediaand publishing
Media and publishing players operate in a constantly changing environment, shaped by digital transformation, evolving usage patterns and the emergence of new business models.
Production, distribution, monetisation, relationships with authors or platforms: the entire value chain is affected.
Cloix Mendès-Gil supports you in structuring, securing and developing your activities, taking into account the specific characteristics of your sector and the legal issues that arise from them.
Describe my needYour challenges
Since the emergence of the internet, media and publishing players have had to fundamentally rethink their business models.
Today, these transformations continue and are accelerating:
- adapting to new business models and new competitors
- evolving methods of producing, distributing and exploiting content
- transforming relationships with authors, journalists, broadcasters and partners
- managing rights and enhancing the value of content
- structuring organisations in an uncertain environment
The entire value chain is affected: publishers, producers, broadcasters, platforms, authors and partners.
The challenge is clear: to develop your business while securing your practices and relationships.
Our solutions
We support media and publishing players with an approach grounded in a practical understanding of your professions and constraints.
We assist you, in particular, with:
- structuring your activities and organisations from a legal standpoint
- securing your contractual relationships with your partners
- supporting your strategic developments and transformations
- overseeing your practices in a changing regulatory environment
- managing sensitive situations and the risks associated with your activity
Our approach is based on a simple conviction: useful advice is advice that takes account of your operational realities.
Skills
- Legal structuring of companies: organising activities, choosing structures, securing transactions
- Growth operations and partnerships: acquisitions, consolidations, structuring strategic alliances
- Intellectual property: copyright, trademarks, protection and exploitation of content
- Press and media law: defamation, privacy, image rights, managing publications
- Sector-specific employee relations: status of journalists, authors and casual workers, organising teams
- Dispute management: prevention, strategy and defence in sensitive litigation
Your partners
Our vision of the lawyer's work by your side
Cloix Mendès-Gil supports private and public players in their strategic projects, sensitive situations and complex disputes. Companies, local authorities, institutions or entrepreneurs: we work at the heart of your challenges, with a comprehensive, operational approach.
We are a partner of private initiative and public action
We support companies, financial players, mixed-economy and social-economy structures, as well as the State and local authorities. This dual public/private culture allows us to understand your constraints and provide solutions suited to interlocking environments.
We approach advice, litigation and mediation as a single whole
We combine expertise in public and private law to handle each situation as a whole. Anticipating risks, structuring projects, securing decisions and managing disputes: our goal is to choose the most effective strategy to defend your interests.
We work according to a proven method
A lead partner steers each case and coordinates a team suited to your needs. We build mediation in as a strategic lever to preserve relationships, control costs and speed up resolutions, whenever it is relevant to do so.
We place mediation at the heart of our strategies
We place mediation at the heart of our strategies to foster effective, level-headed solutions. Led by partner-mediators in public and private law, it helps preserve relationships and control costs and timeframes. Far more than an alternative, it is a strategic tool we use with rigour.