Michael L. Novicoff

Partner Michael Novicoff is a member of Pryor Cashman's Litigation, Media Entertainment, Intellectual Property and International Groups.

He has extensive experience handling complex business litigation, arbitration and mediation throughout North America, Europe and Asia, with particular emphasis on matters involving entertainment, media and intellectual property, and on the liability of corporate entities and their directors and officers. He speaks and teaches frequently on these subjects around the world.

Mike also serves frequently as an Arbitrator and is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s Commercial Arbitration Panel, as well as the International Arbitration Tribunal of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (formerly known as “AFMA”), where he resolves complex disputes throughout the international motion picture distribution industry. He also serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre and for WIPO's Film and Media Centre.

Mike has served as lead counsel across the United States to a substantial number of foreign governments and prominent global corporations and has been engaged frequently to manage litigation pending in other countries, particularly within the worldwide entertainment industry.