Billboard Selects Three Sheppard Mullin Entertainment Partners As 2025 “Top Music Lawyers”
Billboard named Entertainment partners Robert Darwell, Alexis Robinson and Daniel Schnapp to its 2025 list of “Top Music Lawyers.” According to Billboard, the annual list highlights a class of attorneys that serve as an essential resource for the music industry’s rising artists, songwriters and superstars.
This is the third consecutive year that Robinson and Schnapp, who co-lead the firm’s Music team, were recognized. The pair represent notable music industry leaders including ASCAP, Steinway Musical Instruments, Bandsintown, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Spotify.
As the firm’s Head of Global Media, Darwell was highlighted for representing financiers and producers in connection with the sale to Paramount Pictures of the North American theatrical rights to the Robbie Williams biopic, “Better Man.” He has also handled negotiations for Amazon MGM Studios' acquisitions of music documentaries including Jennifer Lopez's "This Is Me...Now" and "I Am: Celine Dion." Darwell has been recognized as a Top Music Lawyer for two consecutive years and was also included on previous editions of the list.