Lee Feldshon has practiced entertainment and corporate law since 1995, and is the founder of the entertainment law firm, Feldshon Law PLLC. He started his career as a corporate associate at the international law firm, White & Case. He later joined the entertainment law boutique Levine Thall Plotkin & Menin, where he worked on the live theatrical productions of (Broadway, touring), (Broadway), (Off Broadway), and other shows. He subsequently served as Director of Legal Affairs and Business Development at the Radio City Entertainment division of Madison Square Garden, where he worked on The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The Radio City Carnivale Spectacular, A Christmas Carol, Rockettes performances, and other projects. From 2004 through 2019, he was also legal counsel to the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) (the “Sundance Festival” of musical theater). In addition to his legal practice, he is a co-producer of the Broadway-bound, live stage musical Austen’s Pride-A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice. His other live theatrical, producing credits include Caligula: An Ancient Glam Epic (musical, executive producer); and History of the Word (musical, associate producer).

 

Lee represents live theatrical production companies, opera companies/organizations (OPERA America, Heartbeat Opera, and Aria Bootcamp), producers, general managers, playwrights, bookwriters, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers, actors, and other creatives in the live theatrical industry. He has served as production counsel for, and/or has prepared and negotiated investor documents, collaboration, commission, and option agreements, and other contracts in connection with numerous productions of plays, musicals, and immersive events, including Rent (Broadway, touring), De La Guarda, Stranger Sings!, Going Bacharach, The Death of Rasputin, The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul, Golem Owned A Tropical Smoothie, Tango Illusion, Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies, The Trouble with Dead Boyfriends, Winghaven Park, Dangerous, Islander, The Dark Star from Harlem, UnCivil, Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started the Iraq War, Desperate Measures, and others. He has also represented cast members of the Broadway productions of Hamilton and A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, as well as a Tony-award winning actor in connection with the Tony-award winning Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

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While Lee’s primary practice is live theater, he worked as production counsel of films, negotiated screenplay option and purchase agreements and co-production agreements for various screenwriters and motion picture producers, and prepared above-the-line, below-the-line agreements for film productions. Past motion picture projects include Fly Away (SXSW Official Selection; Arizona International Film Festival Best Feature Award and Special Jury Award for Best Performance), A Tale of the Wind (Jolene Blalock), the short Goodbye New York (starring Geoffrey Arend); and feature documentaries such as Darkon: An American Fantasy (2006 SXSW "Audience Award") and Tying the Knot (premiere - TriBeCa Film Festival). He is an executive producer of the full-length feature film Fly Away, and an associate producer of Darkon, Jonna's Body, Please Hold (Edmonton International Film Festival Official Selection), and Goodbye New York.

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In the music industry, Lee has also prepared and negotiated band partnership agreements, publishing agreements, music licenses, and other contracts for composers, rock bands, and other recording artists such as Ric Ocasek (of "The Cars"), Reveille, Splender, and ism. He also represented the record label STM Records and the music publisher Shiny New Toy Music, as well as songwriters.

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In addition, Lee represents talent agents and managers, forms limited liability companies and other legal entities, prepares employment and independent contractor agreements, handles copyright and trademark registrations, and prepares settlement and release agreements to resolve disputes among parties.

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Lee received a B.A. from Columbia College in 1991 (magna cum laude, Rhodes Scholar State Finalist) and a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1994 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia Human Rights Law Review).

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Bar Admissions: New York.

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