Marc S. Reisler is a Partner in the Business Section of Holland & Knight and is a member of the firm's Corporate and M&A Practice Group. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Reisler's practice focuses on corporate transactions and financings, primarily for companies with significant intellectual property assets. He also advises clients on e-commerce, privacy and data security and Internet law issues. Mr. Reisler's clients include recorded music and music publishing companies, film and television studios and production companies, software developers, apparel companies, digital media companies, Web hosting providers and ISPs and health care and biotechnology companies. Mr. Reisler also represents hedge funds and commercial finance companies engaged in lending and securitization transactions. His other clients also include financial services companies (investment banks, hedge funds, broker dealers, accounting firms and insurance companies) in connection with IT transactions and outsourcing. Mr. Reisler's clients range from large multinationals to early stage companies. His representation focus includes a variety of transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, asset based lending, venture capital and strategic investments, licensing, joint-ventures, software development agreements, employment and consulting agreements and ECN and other electronic trading platform agreements.
Mr. Reisler has represented buyers and sellers in connection with a wide variety of acquisitions of music publishing companies and recorded music companies. He has also advised producers and financiers with respect to single picture and slate financings of motion pictures and securitization of income streams from musical compositions. In addition, Mr. Reisler has represented participants in a number of global joint ventures to establish a major cable network in various countries in Eastern Europe and Asia. For over 15 years, Mr. Reisler has advised clients on all aspects of Internet, digital media, e-commerce and privacy and data security law, having served as in-house counsel to one of the first mass providers of global Internet and Web-related services.
Mr. Reisler has written articles for major legal publications on a variety of topics, including mergers and acquisitions of software companies, intellectual property and other liabilities facing Internet content companies, the development of user generated content and social networking Web sites, legal issues relating to employee blogging and "incubators" of early stage companies. He has lectured at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on film finance and is a regular speaker at industry events covering entertainment transactions and finance, the Internet, digital media, e-commerce and privacy and data security. He has appeared on NHK Japanese national television as a commentator on the growth and development of the Internet.