Digital Media & Entertainment

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Digital Media & Entertainment

Grayver Law represents developers, distributors, and licensees in negotiating deals with publishers, platforms, advertisers, and networks.

Our clients include some of the industry’s top mobile game publishers and developers, as well as mobile and social gaming startups. We can help you with a wide range of platforms, applications, and technologies offering practical, business-focused advice to help you develop relationships and secure favorable agreements.

Our Digital Media & Entertainment services include:

  • Game and App Development
  • Technological Implementation
  • Game Publishing and Distribution
  • Advertising and Monetization Policies
  • Strategic Agreements and Licensing
  • Brand and Product Placements
  • Privacy, COPPA, GDPR, and Regulatory Issues
  • IP and Trade Secret Protection and Strategy
  • Inbound and Outbound Licensing and Distribution Strategy and Development
  • SDKs and TDKs
  • Software Licensing
  • Product Development and Collaboration
  • Content and Technology Integration
  • Pre-publication review of product and related websites and social media presence


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Thomas McNiff

Thomas McNiff

Thomas J. McNiff is of counsel to the firm. Tom has been an attorney and member of the New York bar focusing on transactional and commercial matters for over 25 years. Tom has advised clients as both external and general counsel on licensing, acquisitions, intellectual property, leasing, e-commerce, corporate structuring, corporate compliance, data privacy, and HR/employee management.

As a former in-house legal counsel at Liz Clairborne, the Maxima Apparel Corp., and The Donna Karan Company, Tom brings a valuable perspective on balancing the risk of a hypothetical legal challenge to the real risk of impeding a business transaction, exemplifying the firm’s motto: never to shy away from shielding our clients from legal risk, but always remembering to do so in a pragmatic way.

Apart from his law practice, Tom works as the head coach of the women’s rugby club at the University of Rhode Island and volunteers as an EMT with the Jamestown Fire Department.

Tom received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law.


Alex Volchegursky

Alex Volchegursky

Email: alex@grayverlaw.com

Alex is of counsel in the firm’s corporate transactional group.

Alexander brings over two decades of experience working extensively with a broad range of early-stage and emerging growth companies, as well as with individual investors in such businesses. Alexander provides the firm’s clients with business transactional services in the field of corporate and business formation, jurisdictional and entity choice, corporate finance and corporate finance transactions, M&A and asset purchases, venture capital equity and debt financings, commercial and technology transactions, securities law compliance, trade-name, and brand protection, and commercial leasing.

Alexander received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.


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Investment Fund Services

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Investment Fund Services

We work with seed and Series A-stage venture capital funds, angel clubs, fund-of-funds, and syndicate SPVs (including both series LLCs and stand-alone) in connection with formation and operations, including structuring and conducting legal due diligence in their investments in startup companies. While we have represented venture capital funds with up to $500 million under management, our sweet spot is emerging fund managers with fund sizes under $100 million.

Our professionals have represented such funds as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund, Trident Capital, China Everbright Fund, Pangaea Ventures, Altair.VC, Leta Capital, Runa Capital, Cabra Capital, TMT Ventures, Frontier Ventures, Vibranium Venture Capital, Troika Dialog Group, Investment & Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan, VTB Capital, RBV Capital, Foresight Ventures, Prostor Capital, SBT Ventures (aka Fort Ross Ventures), Quantum Wave Fund, Finsight Ventures, Pulsar Venture Capital, Volga Venture Partners, Formula VC, Genezis Capital, Projector Ventures, TEC Ventures, Viaduct Ventures, GVA Capital, Mindrock Capital, Prospective Technologies Capital, I am The Fund, Secret Ventures, Almak Capital, and others.

A significant part of our practice involves the representation of accelerators. We work with our accelerator clients to lower their legal spend by creating customized workflows and legal processes that drive efficiencies into their scalable model. Accelerators are capital constrained, but they do not need to be constrained by their legal needs. Among our accelerator clients, we are proud to count Foundersboost, Starta Ventures, Pulsar Ventures, Softlanding Vibranium VC, Startup.Network and over the years we have established close working relationships with such prominent accelerators as YCombinator, 500 Startups, and Alchemist.

As part of our investment fund practice we also regularly represent institutional investors (LPs) in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, including conducting due diligence, reviewing limited partnership agreements, and negotiating side letters.

Our attorneys’ recent fund structuring efforts include:

• $200 million Cayman Islands VC Fund (representing GP)

• $60 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)

• $150 million Cayman Islands VC Fund (representing GP)

• $40 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)

• $100 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)

• $50 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)

• $25 million Delaware VC Fund (representing GP)

• Numerous Seed Funds <$10M (representing GP)


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ARTEM DOLUKHANYAN

Artem Dolukhanyan

Office: +1.310.372.5770
Email: artem@grayverlaw.com
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Artem Dolukhanyan is a partner in the corporate transactional group. His practice concentrates on representing clients in connection with corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital, and corporate finance. He works with companies through all stages of their development, including corporate formation, debt and equity financings, securities compliance, and advises clients on general corporate matters. Artem advised clients across industries including technology, media and entertainment, videogames, and consumer products.

Prior to joining the firm, Artem was a corporate associate at a prominent boutique corporate law firm in Los Angeles, where he was a member of the corporate transactional practice group.

Artem received his law degree from Moscow State Law University in 2009 and his LL.M degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, in 2018. Artem also holds a graduate degree in finance management from Moscow State Finance University. He is a member of the California State Bar since 2018.


Pitch Coaching

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Pitch Coaching

Have you ever walked out of a pitch thinking: “That could have gone so much better”? Many people make the same mistakes in the pitch room that cost them the chance to secure funding, inspire stakeholders or sign new clients. Things go wrong because your message is not clear, and you fail to stand out.

Our mission is to get you to learn to tell your stories in just a few words (be concise), use simple words that everyone can relate to (be clear) and articulate why your audience should care (be different).

If you have a big investor meeting coming up, a sales pitch or an important business presentation, we offer face-to-face coaching or virtual coaching via our private video-chat room.

Depending on your goals and challenges, we will typically work on refining your story, structuring your messages, simplifying your slide deck, enhancing your delivery style and sharpening your answers to tough questions. We will fine tune and practice until it is just right!


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Technical Writing & Editing Services

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Technical Writing & Editing Services

Our technical writing and editing services help clients create new, powerful documentation + strengthen and organize existing materials to help achieve corporate goals such as:

• Improving professional communication
• Meeting compliance regulations
• Updating policies and procedures
• Providing employee training
• Streamlining processes
• Having clear, concise guides for products and services
• Distributing vital content to large audiences

Our experienced native English speaking writers come from a variety of scientific, engineering, and journalistic backgrounds, with degrees from the leading US universities. They are well qualified to assume publication responsibilities in a variety of fields.

We can write and edit highly technical or confusing information so that it will be clearly and properly understood by the target audience. The content and message is retained while we make the document more readable for a wider audience.

Our services are not limited to documents that are technical in nature. We also help prepare content for company newsletters, investor presentations, and white papers. In addition to technical and professional writing, editing, and proofing, our services encompass all aspects of technical documentation preparation. The final product is delivered in electronic, printed and/or online formats in the form of high quality:

• User and installation manuals
• Technical papers and reports
• Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Work Order Optimization
• Job Aids
• Training materials
• Product and software documentation
• Policies and procedures, and many more


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UI/UX Design

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UI/UX Design

Grayver Law Group is proud to partner with Hilary Bienstock, considered by many to be one of the premier UX research consultants in California (her clients include the who-is-who among Silicon Valley technology companies). Hilary’s specialty lies in providing unique insights into consumers’ mindsets and motivations by conducting foundational and summative user research and then analyzing and interpreting that research to guide new web site and application designs. User research may take the form of usability testing, participatory design, A/B testing, metrics analysis, ethnographic research, contextual inquiries, focus groups, surveys, card sorts, desirability studies, or a custom study designed to suit the client’s precise needs.

The duration of our UX consulting service depends on the nature of your project and its complexity. We can help you quickly evaluate your product’s user experience and understand what elements need to be updated or redesigned. At the same time, we can provide UX consulting services on an ongoing basis for optimal long-term results.

By helping you to refine the user experience, we empower you to create a well-rounded product that is easy to use and rewarding for both new and current users. Using our multi-domain exposure and industry-leading UX practices, we deliver:

• Digital Experience Design Strategy
• Innovation Strategy
• UX in Digital Transformation
• Product roadmap development
• Design Briefing
• UX Project Management


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STEVEN CISCHKE

STEVEN CISCHKE

Phone: +1.310.372.5770

Email: steven@grayverlaw.com

Steven Cischke joined Grayver Law Group as of counsel in 2019. Steven has over 30 years of litigation experience in both state and federal courts in California. He has handled a wide variety of litigation matters, with special concentration in employment law.

Steven received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan, a Master’s Degree in public policy studies from the University of Michigan’s Institute of Public Policy Studies (now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy) and a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.