Biography

Greg W. Brooks is a partner at Serling Rooks Hunter McKoy Worob & Averill LLP and is Co-Head of the firm’s corporate department. Greg has built a sophisticated and dynamic practice focused primarily on corporate and financing transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and equity and debt financings, with a significant amount of these transactions centered in the entertainment and media industries. Greg regularly advises both buyers and sellers in the acquisition and sale of music
rights and assets, closing dozens of catalog deals annually. He is among an elite group of highly respected attorneys in the country with extensive experience in advising clients both in music business deals and also in complex corporate, private equity, finance and M&A transactions.

Greg also advises on recording and music publishing matters, merchandising, sponsorship, endorsement, touring, management agreements and other music industry matters including copyright and trademark issues.

Greg’s clients include major entertainment companies, media companies, private equity and venture capital groups, strategic investors, and entrepreneurs. His clients also include multi-platinum RIAA certified and Grammy award-winning artists and songwriters, as well as managers and music industry executives.

Mr. Brooks received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1985 from Hampden-Sydney College and earned his Juris Doctor in 1988 from Mercer University School of Law.

Practice Areas
Mergers and Acquisitions
Catalog Acquisition Transactions
Corporate Finance
Entertainment
Intellectual Property
Executive Employment

Bar Admissions
New York, 2006
Georgia, 1988