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Media & Entertainment

Nationwide - Canada

7 Years Ranked

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Canada

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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.

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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.

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