The speed of a modern business, the results of a big law firm.
We specialize in the middle market, where businesses pay too much for lawyers who don’t deliver.
SBH was founded by lawyers and entrepreneurs who recognized that the traditional law firm model is broken, from inflated billable hours to poor client service. Our partners have decades of experience in law and business. We trained in top global law firms, served as general counsel and built companies of our own. We know what it’s like to be the client: to hire lawyers, manage them and pay their bills. We use that perspective to deliver practical, business-driven legal services.
Our practice is lean and efficient, with no bureaucracy and no unnecessary overhead.
We run on the same modern technology and processes we used in our own companies, with flexible billing — monthly, project-based, hourly or custom — because fees should reflect value, not hours.
Billions of dollars in transactions and high-stakes litigation in technology, private equity, venture capital, labor & employment, entertainment, real estate, and other sectors.
From day-to-day counsel to your most significant transactions and disputes, here is how we support our clients.
Our expertise spans corporate governance, M&A, contracts, finance, business litigation, entertainment, media, real estate and labor and employment.
We become part of your team. Our external general counsel practice delivers sophisticated, ongoing legal support.
Meet the partners behind SBH.
Collaborative, low-ego environment with people you’ll want to work with, not just lawyers you have to.
Evan is a transactional, entertainment and media lawyer and advisor. He represents production companies, hospitality groups, venture capital funds and startups.
Eric is a commercial litigator. He represents companies and individuals in labor and employment, corporate governance, commercial, real estate and intellectual property disputes.
John is a corporate and litigation lawyer and advisor. He represents companies, funds, founders and executives in corporate and fund governance, M&A, commercial contracts, finance, commercial disputes and other corporate matters.
Evan is a transactional, entertainment and media lawyer and advisor. He represents production companies, hospitality groups, venture capital funds and startups.
Evan’s entertainment and media practice serves creators, production companies, investors and other entertainment industry players in all aspects of entertainment related ventures. Evan also helps clients protect intellectual property, structure partnerships, secure financing and negotiate complex deals that drive long-term enterprise value.
Evan began his legal career as a finance, bankruptcy and corporate lawyer at Sheppard Mullin where his practice focused on commercial lending and other corporate transactions. He then pivoted to the entertainment industry, where he served as an attorney in the Business and Legal Affairs division at MGM Television, Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at NBC Universal and Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at Westbrook Studios, before founding his prior firm, Sypek Legal P.C. Evan also founded and ran a successful investment vehicle with holdings in real estate, consumer products, FinTech and other sectors.
Evan has negotiated a wide variety of entertainment deals, including talent agreements, complex financing and distribution deals and high-volume production transactions. In the hospitality space, Evan has launched, built and served as general counsel for multiple businesses, including private membership clubs, restaurants and hospitality software companies.
Eric is a commercial litigator. He represents companies and individuals in labor and employment, corporate governance, commercial, real estate and intellectual property disputes.
Eric represents companies and individuals in all phases of commercial litigation, from counseling and dispute avoidance to pleadings, discovery, and trial. His practice is wide-ranging, spanning labor and employment, corporate governance and commercial disputes, as well as real estate and intellectual property matters. With extensive experience both in the courtroom and at the negotiating table, Eric understands how litigation is leveraged across industries, enabling him to focus on resolving client issues as efficiently as possible.
In the labor and employment space, Eric has advised and defended companies of various sizes in all types of disputes—from discrimination, retaliation, harassment and wrongful termination claims to wage and hour, ADA, and PAGA issues. He has vast experience handling demand letters, counseling on day-to-day employee complaints and efficiently resolving potential disputes. In the litigation context, Eric’s track record includes jury verdicts and dismissals for major retailers, financial services firms, and companies across hospitality, retail, agriculture, media, and tech.
Eric spent over 10 years in BigLaw, rising from associate to senior counsel, at McDermott Will & Schulte, Katten Muchin Rosenman and Seyfarth Shaw. He also moved in-house, first at The Wonderful Company, where he handled corporate risk and litigation matters, as well as supported its commercial, regulatory and employment functions. Eric later served as Deputy General Counsel for The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, where he led legal support on an array of labor and employment issues for major production companies in the entertainment industry. Eric played Division I soccer at Northwestern University. A former athlete and avid sports fan, Eric brings the same strategic thinking, discipline and competitive drive to achieving results for his clients.
John is a corporate and litigation lawyer and advisor. He represents companies, funds, founders and executives in corporate and fund governance, M&A, commercial contracts, finance, commercial disputes and other corporate matters.
John represents clients in industries including technology, hospitality, service and real estate. He advises his clients on corporate governance and corporate transactions, including M&A, finance, fund formation and commercial contracts. John also represents clients in business disputes, including those involving contracts, partnership disputes, M&A, business torts and fraud. John’s general counsel and entrepreneurial background shapes his growth-minded approach to designing legal strategies that both minimize risk and maximize value for his clients.
John started his career at Sheppard Mullin, an international AmLaw 100 law firm, where he represented fortune 100 companies, startups and founders in corporate matters, business litigation and government investigations. He then served as General Counsel for Financial Systems Corporation, a large electronic payments company which he helped scale and sell to a public acquirer. Then, John co-founded and served as General Counsel for Boom Commerce, a national FinTech and electronic payments company, which he built and sold to a public acquirer for more than $100 million dollars. John is also co-founder and General Counsel of Forza Capital, a private financing company that makes structured credit and equity investments in industries including real estate, software, FinTech and consumer products. He also co-founded Passo, a fully integrated real estate development company dedicated to providing affordable housing across Los Angeles.
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