David Shraga mediates commercial and entertainment disputes with a command of the room that only comes from having occupied every seat at the table. As a litigator, he represented large corporations and individual entrepreneurs, plaintiffs and defendants, talent and studios, building trust across the table and finding workable paths through complex disputes. As Senior Vice President and Head of Global Television Business & Legal Affairs at Miramax, and before that in multiple senior roles at NBCUniversal, he spent a decade inside the studio system structuring and negotiating high-stakes deals with the top agents, managers, and dealmakers in the entertainment industry. That full-spectrum experience, from the courtroom to the studio executive suite, gives David a ready fluency in what each party carries into mediation, and the standing to engage all of them with equal authority.
David began his legal career at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP, where he built a complex litigation, entertainment law, and intellectual property practice, before founding KSW LLP, a boutique practice in entertainment, media, IP, business, and employment litigation. After seven years leading his own firm, David moved into the studio system, progressing through senior business and legal affairs roles at NBCUniversal before joining Miramax as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Television Business & Legal Affairs. In that role, every agreement he reached required working closely with internal stakeholders across business functions to ensure alignment, and ultimately demanded durability; each one became the foundation of an ongoing creative and commercial relationship. That reality shaped how David thinks about resolution: not as an endpoint, but as something every party has to be able to live and work with. To that end, David strives to build solutions that serve the interests of all involved.
David was on the Law Review while at the University of Southern California School of Law, externed for the Hon. Dean D. Pregerson (C.D. of Cal.) and received his BA from Yale.
David is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Entertainment Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association; is the Outreach Coordinator and a Co-Host for the Will Work For Food Project – a webinar series which raises donations for food banks around the world; serves as a volunteer mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court; is a member of the Southern California Mediation Association; is on the volunteer mediation panel for California Lawyers For The Arts; and volunteers with the Western Center on Law & Poverty to train high school peer mediators.
