Patrick Sweeney
Counsel

Practice Areas

Experience

Mr. Sweeney is a counsel in our Venture Capital and Emerging Growth Practice Group. His practice focuses on new media business transactions and he offers strategic advice to companies on their use of digital content.

Mr. Sweeney has extensive experience in the video game industry, recently serving as general counsel for Brash Entertainment LLC, the only publisher of video games exclusively devoted to the production and distribution of properties based on major motion picture licenses. While at Brash, Mr. Sweeney negotiated approximately 30 license agreements with major motion picture studios, supported Brash’s $400 million investment, and negotiated a varied array of game development agreements, technology licenses and various supplemental agreements in regard to ancillary rights opportunities.

Prior to joining Brash, Mr. Sweeney headed the multimedia practice group for a 90-attorney Southern California law firm. He has also worked in the counsel’s office for one of the top video game publishers as well as the television syndication department of a major production studio.

Mr. Sweeney has written or been featured in various articles on video game-related topics for publications including The Daily Journal, Game Developer Magazine, Video Game Transmedia, International Game Developers Association, and T.I.G.A. (a United Kingdom video game trade association). He has served as an adjunct professor at both Whittier Law School and Southwestern Law School, teaching “Video Game Law.” Mr. Sweeney’s class was the first U.S. law school course dedicated to the legal issues of the video game industry.

Admissions

Mr. Sweeney is admitted to practice in California.

Education

Whittier Law School, J.D.
Vanderbilt University, B.S. English Literature