Mr. Sherman is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted and profiled in publications including The Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard and interviewed and featured on C-SPAN and National Public Radio (NPR). He is a board member of The Technology Council of Southern California and is a judge for the annual Mobile Excellence Awards. He is also founder and creator of the Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards, which he sold to VNU/Nielsen in 2006.
Mr. Sherman is active in global media affairs, recently launching the Canadian Media Wire news service and serving as a judge for the O2 Digital Media Awards in Ireland, moderator at the annual MIDEM Global Music Exposition in Cannes, France, and chair of Digital Strategies Conference @ Canadian Music Week in Toronto. He recently keynoted at the annual convention for the Hawaii Association of Broadcasters and has spoken at CMJ Music Marathon (NYC), Game Developers Conference (Austin), Casual Connect (Seattle), and CTIA (Las Vegas).
Mr. Sherman is a principal owner
of Digital Media Wire, Inc., which he co-founded in 2000
and has helped to grow into a significant player in
media industry news, community and events. The company
owns and operates the dmwmedia.com news portal and
newsletter and 12 annual executive conferences.
Mr. Sherman is a member of the California bar
association and practices entertainment and corporate
law representing a variety of clients in entertainment
and media ventures.
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He was a founding member of the
iLaw Group in the Entertainment Department at Loeb &
Loeb LLP in Los Angeles, where he handled licensing and
corporate transactions and financings for media and
entertainment clients including Universal Studios and
MGM, launched dozens of Internet and new media start-ups
and worked with talent, including recording artists,
writers, directors and actors. He has counseled company
founders from initiation of a business plan to seed,
angel, venture capital and later-stage private
financings and managed all legal aspects of Internet
clients from corporate organization, stockholder
relationships, board compositions and dynamics, stock
option plans, capital raising and security regulatory
matters, Internet law issues, trademark, copyright,
content and technology licensing, advertising and
privacy issues.
From 1997 to 1999, he practiced in
the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown & Platt where his
practice centered on representation of U.S. and foreign
banks in syndicated lending transactions and
securitization matters.
From 1995 to 1997, he was a foreign lawyer at Nishimura
& Partners in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice involved
international mergers and acquisitions and the formation
of technology and entertainment joint venture companies.
He also served as President of the Roppongi Bar
Association in Tokyo, the leading association for
foreign lawyers working in Japan.
In 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer of Law at Tulane
University Law School where he taught an entertainment
law seminar. Ned is a graduate of Brown University (AB,
with honors, 1990) and the University of Texas School of
Law (JD, 1994) where he was Chief Articles & Notes
Editor of the Texas International Law Journal and winner
of the national Scribes Awards for his article on the
human rights ramifications of U.S. reservations to
international death penalty treaties.
He is active in alumni affairs for Brown University and is currently Southern California Chair for Brown University's Alumni Interview Program. He has traveled extensively from Europe to Asia to South America to Northern Africa. Ned is married and lives with his wife, son and daughter in Los Angeles, California.