Fenwick & West.
Vejay Lalla is the industry colead in the digital media and entertainment, consumer technologies, and retail practice at Fenwick & West.
Lalla's team worked on the launch of Animal Capital, a venture capital firm cofounded by TikTok influencers Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson, and Noah Beck. Fenwick supported influencer Arielle Charnas and her brand Something Navy on talent and endorsement deals and building Something Navy's curated marketplace. And the firm also worked with gamer-training platform Statespace to set up deals with
Twitch
streamers KingGeorge, SypherPK, and Valkia.
"You're seeing this very different and growing strategy with talent where they're not only leveraging their traditional name and likeness in the context of media entertainment and social and digital channels," Lalla told Insider. "You are seeing this trend with influencers not only farming out their name and likeness rights in traditional entertainment deals, but becoming investors or advisors at companies."