With experience representing broadcasting and media companies, sports lifestyle brands, endurance sports companies, and other business enterprises, Kanika Corley routinely advises clients on complex transactions and litigation matters, business disputes, intellectual property matters, and related corporate matters.
Clients turn to Kanika for strategic counsel and risk assessment when contemplating major business decisions relating to media rights, advertising, intellectual property, as well as the purchase, sale, and consolidation of business properties. Recently, Kanika represented multiple broadcasting companies in a variety of matters, including a dispute over the scope of rights attendant to the production of a television series. She also advised a broadcasting client regarding the right to publish certain newsworthy information that carried implications in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, she recently defended a mass-media company that publishes an internationally recognized news publication in an action implicating First Amendment rights. She also negotiated and secured endorsement deals on behalf of a hockey-focused lifestyle brand, and prosecuted certain intellectual property rights.
Over the past several years, Kanika has represented multiple endurance sports companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, business disputes, and corporate governance matters. She has represented a professional soccer team in multiple disputes regarding licenses to use certain media assets, as well as matters concerning rights of publicity. She has litigated federal claims concerning the alleged infringing use of intellectual property in response to challenges by competitors in the fields of volleyball and skateboarding. She has also represented high-profile professional basketball players in connection with business consolidations, partnerships, and litigation arising therefrom.
In addition, Kanika has provided strategic counsel to rights holders in the areas of live events, including award shows and competitions, as well as other television and theatrical rights.
She has extensive experience advocating for the rights of her clients through arbitration and trial, litigating appeals, advising on best methods for dispute resolution, advising on deal terms and business structures, managing rights acquisitions, and advising senior management of both public and privately held companies.
Kanika is also heavily involved in the legal community as a frequent author and speaker.