Natasha Azava is a Manatt Entertainment associate in the firm’s New York office and is a transactional entertainment attorney with a focus on music and experience in television, film, theatre, fashion, photography, design and fine art. She also has experience in copyright, trademark, licensing and usage rights matters.
Natasha advises and counsels artists, DJs, bands, producers, record labels, music publishing companies, executives, songwriters, managers, composers, entertainment technology platforms, apparel and fashion companies, festivals and brands.
Her practice focuses on securing, negotiating, and documenting business transactions, including recording and music publishing agreements, endorsement, branding, merchandising, and licensing agreements, live performance agreements, songwriter agreements, producer and production agreements, side artist agreements, catalog acquisitions, management agreements, festival agreements and distribution agreements. Natasha also represents clients pursuing cutting-edge deals, particularly those taking advantage of opportunities in the proliferating Web3 era. She is skilled at navigating NFT transactions and in dealmaking in the metaverse.
Before joining Manatt, Natasha was an attorney at a New York boutique law firm, where she represented clients in the entertainment industry, negotiating entertainment-related contracts and advising clients as to intellectual property rights in the context of the entertainment business. She has also performed copyright termination analyses for publishers, authors, and their heirs, and negotiated and drafted acquisition agreements involving major music publishing and master recording catalogs.