Ralph P. Brescia, Esq.

Legal and Business Affairs

Ralph P Brescia is a transactional attorney currently practicing law in and around Los Angeles, involving all areas of the arts and entertainment industries. Mr. Brescia has represented financiers (including banks, bond companies and individual investors), production companies, rights holders, distributors and world-renowned actors, musicians, writers, artists, photographers, editors, producers and directors. He has done deals with all of the major Hollywood studios, streaming services, guilds and talent agencies, as well as with publishers, record companies, manufacturers and retailers.

He was the lawyer behind several successful motion pictures including Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic,” Oliver Stone’s “W” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed.”

Prior to starting his own law practice in 2017, Mr. Brescia worked for 16 years at the preeminent entertainment law firm of Bloom Hergott Diemer & Cook, LLP, through its various iterations, representing clients including Sylvester Stallone, Javier Bardem, George Lucas, Julian Schnabel and Dennis Hopper. His work has helped bring to fruition motion pictures (“The Incredibles 2,” “Creed,” “300,” “The Expendables” franchise, “Wolf of Wall Street,” “Rocky Balboa,” “Shutter Island,” “Immortals,” “World Trade Center,” “Hugo,” “Rambo V,” “The Aviator”), television productions (“Boardwalk Empire,” “Power,” “Vinyl,” “Ghost,” “The Secret History of the United States,” “Beastmasters”) and documentaries on Bob Dylan, The Blues, Fran Liebowitz, and George Harrison.

Mr. Brescia has a breadth of deal-making experience across both the public and private sectors. He is known for his ability to find common ground where others have failed, be it as a private attorney or as a public servant negotiating multi-national space and earth observation missions for NASA or serving as the chief of staff for the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. Having been initially recruited to Los Angeles by the prestigious firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, where he specialized in international film financing, Mr. Brescia’s practice remains international in scope, having represented individuals and companies in China, including Hong Kong, France, Spain, Italy, elsewhere in Europe, Canada, Australia and the UK.

Mr. Brescia has also traveled extensively throughout the world for his work. He has visited with the Elders on Easter Island, negotiated with the Pinochet Regime in Chile, held discussions with Fidel Castro, attended Royal Openings, briefed U.S. and foreign ambassadors and diplomatic personnel, crossed the Allenby Bridge as a member of the first delegation to do so with both Israeli and Arab visas in their passports, and bore witness to the difficult final months of the Soviet Union. Mr. Brescia’s pro bono work includes appellate victories for Uighur and Somali nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. and representing local children in adoption proceedings. Mr. Brescia is also an accomplished practitioner of alternative dispute resolution techniques.

Mr. Brescia holds B.A. degrees, summa cum laude, from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., a Master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a J.D., Order of the Coif, from Georgetown University.