Karen Au Claro

As General Counsel for NYI, Karen handles all of the company’s strategic and operational legal matters. She brings over 30 years of legal experience and expertise in complex intellectual property issues, licensing and ownership of technology, privacy and data security issues, advertising and media law, and commercial transactions.

Prior to her current position, Karen worked for twenty years at Cablevision Systems Corporation where she was an in-house lawyer for various sports, entertainment and news businesses, including AMC, IFC, Fuse, SportsChannel, MSG, Newsday and News12. Her responsibilities included managing both an in-house legal team and outside counsel that provided operations-related legal support.

Karen began her career at Robinson, Pearce, Aronson & Berman, which merged with Bryan Cave LLP in 2002. As an associate in the Corporate Department of that New York City law firm, she worked on numerous corporate, financing and securities matters for several high-profile companies.

Karen earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from Binghamton University.