Bonnie Eskenazi

Practice Areas

Entertainment, Commercial, and IP Litigation

Career

Bonnie Eskenazi regularly handles some of Hollywood’s most high profile and landmark entertainment disputes for the industry’s leading performers, directors, writers, producers, rights holders, studios and talent agents.

Bonnie’s practice is international in scope with extensive experience in all aspects of the entertainment industry, media and intellectual property matters, including royalties and profit participations, idea theft, contracts, defamation and reputation protection, invasion of privacy, trademarks, copyright, merchandise and licensing, music distribution, music publishing, motion picture production and distribution and technology.

Bonnie’s clients have included Marvel Entertainment, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Estate of JRR Tolkien, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, MGM, STX Entertainment, EndemolShine North America, Bron Studios, Marlon Brando, Hans Zimmer, HarperCollins Publishing, Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Playboy Enterprises, Harvey Entertainment, DIC Entertainment, Lagardere Entertainment, Elle Macpherson, Geffen Records, Horror Inc. (owners of the rights to Friday the 13th), Bagdasarian Productions (owners of the Chipmunks), Stephen Slesinger Inc. (owners of rights in Winnie the Pooh). Bonnie is also outside general counsel for the Bob Marley Estate.

Bonnie is a member of Greenberg Glusker's management committee. She teaches a course in Entertainment Law at Stanford Law School and is an annual guest lecturer at Harvard Law School.