Andrew Keyes
Associate
Andrew is a trusted adviser for guiding clients through the complexities of trademark, copyright, and defamation disputes.
Phone Number
415-955-1155 Ext. 131
Email Address
Andrew Keyes
Associate
Andrew is a trusted adviser for guiding clients through the complexities of trademark, copyright, and defamation disputes.
Phone Number
415-955-1155 Ext. 131
Email Address
Andrew focuses on speech and intellectual property matters, with an additional emphasis in entertainment law and music rights.
Andrew Keyes counsels clients in e-commerce, intellectual property, speech, and entertainment law matters. He is thoroughly familiar with the nuts and bolts of state and federal litigation, from drafting complaints to preparing and opposing dispositive motions. On behalf of plaintiffs, Andrew has recovered sums of up to six figures and secured speedy injunctive relief. For his defendant clients, Andrew has headed off meritless litigation with successful anti-SLAPP motions, motions to dismiss, and early resolutions.
With a deep background in music and entertainment law, Andrew zealously advocates for his clients, whether that client is a start-up record label or a household name rock star. Whether he is litigating a breach of contract action or negotiating a rights acquisition deal, Andrew guides his clients with both legal rigor and industry savvy.
Before his legal career, Andrew worked in the recording and music publishing industries alongside Grammy-nominated artists with several RIAA Gold and Platinum plaques. Andrew has been a member of multiple industry trade groups, and continues to maintain a close relationship with the independent label and publisher community.
My passion is using my lawyering skills to bring together the entertainment industry and the tech sector.
The scope of Andrew’s transactional legal work includes license agreements, sample clearance agreements, and corporate acquisition agreements.
Prior to joining Kronenberger Rosenfeld, Andrew worked as an associate at several Los Angeles-area litigation firms. One of Andrew’s particular areas of expertise is trademark and brand enforcement in the digital space. He has been responsible for sweeping takedown campaigns regarding unlicensed NFTs and counterfeit supplements. He is also particularly adept at assisting trademark owners in reclaiming infringing domain names through the expedited UDRP arbitration process.
There's nothing I love more than explaining a deeply confusing I.P. law issue to a client.
Andrew earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School, and during his time there he interned with major film, television, and media companies. Andrew was also a board member of both Loyola’s Entertainment and Sports Law Society (ESLS) and Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity Law Society (IPCLS).
EDUCATION
New York University, B.M., Music Business
Loyola Law School, J.D.
BAR ADMISSIONS
State Bar of California
U.S. District Court of the Central District of California
MEMBERSHIPS
Additional Attributes for Andrew Keyes
- Executed an extensive trademark enforcement campaign on behalf of a supplements brand, resulting in the takedown of hundreds of infringing e-commerce listings and several favorable district court settlements
- Obtained the dismissal of a defamation case against a news publisher through an anti-SLAPP motion
- Defended a legacy recording artist at mediation, resulting in the plaintiffs settling for one tenth of their original demand
- Prepared a motion to dismiss in a copyright infringement action, resulting in plaintiff settling for nominal damages prior to judge's ruling
- Recovered $400,000 for plaintiff in a bad-faith action against his insurer for medical expenses incurred from COVID hospitalization abroad
- Represented a business seller in a seven-figure asset purchase deal
- Provided sample clearance services for a Billboard-charting single
"Music Licensing Reinvented" - Loyola Law School, February 2019; moderator
"Music Publishing 101" - Loyola Law School, November 2018; speaker and moderator
- Executed an extensive trademark enforcement campaign on behalf of a supplements brand, resulting in the takedown of hundreds of infringing e-commerce listings and several favorable district court settlements
- Obtained the dismissal of a defamation case against a news publisher through an anti-SLAPP motion
- Defended a legacy recording artist at mediation, resulting in the plaintiffs settling for one tenth of their original demand
- Prepared a motion to dismiss in a copyright infringement action, resulting in plaintiff settling for nominal damages prior to judge's ruling
- Recovered $400,000 for plaintiff in a bad-faith action against his insurer for medical expenses incurred from COVID hospitalization abroad
- Represented a business seller in a seven-figure asset purchase deal
- Provided sample clearance services for a Billboard-charting single
"Music Licensing Reinvented" - Loyola Law School, February 2019; moderator
"Music Publishing 101" - Loyola Law School, November 2018; speaker and moderator
