Charles Barsamian Joins Entertainment Law Partners As Managing Partner

Exclusive: Veteran entertainment attorney Charles Barsamian has joined Entertainment Law Partners (Elp) as Managing Partner.

Barsamian will lead the firm’s newly launched New York City office. He joins Tifanie J. Acosta and Michael Roban as a named partner.

The company has said Barsamian will also spearhead the development of a dedicated music division, representing music publishers, catalogs, record labels, and sync alongside composers, producers, artists, and music supervisors.

A vet of the indie production scene, Barsamian is an Executive Producer and served as Production Counsel on several titles debuting this fall, including Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, a TIFF premiere distributed by Paramount Pictures; Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante, set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival; and Mubi’s Lurker. He was a co-producer on Nick Pizzolato’s Easy’s Waltz, also set to debut at TIFF.

Barsamian most recently led his own firm, the Charles M.