C. Anthony Mulrain

Anthony, who was named a 2020 Sports and Entertainment Trailblazer by the National Law Journal, is Co-chair of the firm’s Sports & Entertainment Group, a Member of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups, and a prominent attorney with 25 years of practice experience. Drawing on his extensive experience with transactional matters and litigation, Anthony brings a practical, business-focused perspective to a broad range of client matters. He began focusing his practice on the entertainment and sports industries two decades ago, and has become a much sought-after resource for talent, studios, and companies in those industries.  

Anthony initially began working with entertainment clients when he was engaged by a publicly traded multibillion-dollar mass media company to handle litigation. His successful resolution of disputes for that client led to representing actors, writers, producers, and directors in the motion picture and television businesses in transactions with studios and production companies. He has advised creative professionals on agreements related to their work on a wide variety of television shows and motion pictures: CSI New York, Everybody Hates Chris, Geniuses, Main Event, Survivor’s Remorse, The Real McCoy, The Tyra Banks Show, The Neighborhood, among many others. In addition to traditional entertainment representation, Anthony’s practice has evolved to encompass representing entertainment clients in a broad range of other business pursuits, such as the acquisition of an interest in a hotel and a joint venture for an ownership interest in a wine company. He has also handled legal agreements for productions, copyright infringement actions, employment matters, and other legal issues for studios, networks, and streaming companies.

After establishing himself as an entertainment attorney, Anthony expanded his practice to include sports law. He has extensive experience advising and counseling professional athletes, sports agencies, and boxing promoters and regularly represents players in the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and Major League Baseball, including at least one number one overall draft pick in all three major sports. Anthony’s work for athletes also encompasses representing them in the agent selection process, player-agent fee disputes, traditional and equitized endorsement and image licensing agreements, marketing representation agreements, intellectual property portfolio management, and civil litigation throughout the country. He is also called on to serve as general counsel to professional athletes, guiding them through a variety of sophisticated transactions, including the acquisition of an interest in television streaming networks, the purchase of national television affiliates, the formation of marketing enterprises, and the structuring of eSports teams. World champion prizefighters have also sought his counsel on business disputes. 

In addition to his work for individuals, many of the nation’s most prominent sports agencies have engaged Anthony to represent celebrity clients in highly sensitive matters, including pre-draft extortion cases and complex and contentious business disputes with apparel and protective gear companies. Anthony has also counseled start-up sports agencies on corporate and regulatory issues and advised boxing promoters on television agreements and related sports issues for world championship boxing matches such as “Canelo Alvarez v. James Kirkland” and “Terrence Crawford v. Yuriorkis Gamboa.” 

More recently, Anthony was engaged by a publicly traded multibillion-dollar social media company to advise it on legal issues related to entertainment. The firm is counseling the company on a myriad of issues, including labeling for children’s products, general data protection regulations, and FCC and FTC regulations. 

In addition to his work in the sports and entertainment sectors, Anthony frequently counsels entrepreneurs establishing businesses in the Silicon Valley.

Prior to joining Mintz, Anthony served as the founding and managing partner in the Atlanta office of a prominent national law firm. He was also chair of the firm’s national sports, media and entertainment practice. 

• Rutgers University (JD)
• Iona College (BBA)

• The National Law Journal: Sports & Entertainment Trailblazers List (2020) 
• Who's Who Legal: Sports & Entertainment (2007 – 2009, 2015)
• Rolling Out: One of the 100 Most Influential People in Entertainment (2008)
• The Network Journal: Top 40 Under Forty Achievement Award (2004)

• Member, National Black Lawyers
• Member, Sports Lawyers Association
• Member, Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association
• Board of Advisors, The Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball Academy
• Board of Directors, Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association (2004 – 2010)
• Board Member, Metropolitan Black Bar Association (1997 – 2001)