Dave Feldman is a Co-Founder and partner at Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, LLP in Century City, California. He has spent over 25 years negotiating Film, Television, Brand, Endorsement, Book, Radio/Podcast and other deals for a wide variety of top tier talent including Actors, Writers, TV Showrunners, Directors and Producers. His dealmaking for his eclectic mix of talent clients has brought in over $100 million of aggregate revenues in the past year alone including several “8 figure“ deals. His clients include some of the highest paid talent working in TV and Film today
Among his wide-ranging client roster are Emmy nominee and Peabody Award winner Keegan-Michael Key, mega film producer Irwin Winkler, former UFC fighter and global superstar Ronda Rousey, Sports Radio hall of fame host and Icon Jim Rome, the creators/executive producers of the long running, multi Emmy award winning “The Amazing Race” television series and dozens of other top tier talent in all facets of the entertainment industry A leader in television negotiations and renegotiations for his many actor clients, Dave is an outside consultant to SAG/AFTRA and has spearheaded many innovative changes in TV agreements over the past 20 years.
Dave began his entertainment law career in the entertainment department at O’ Melveny & Myers. From there he joined the prestigious Bloom, Dekom & Hergott boutique talent law firm where he became a name partner in 2005. At the end of 2019, after the retirement of Jake Bloom and Alan Hergott, Dave formed Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson with his former partners.
Dave has been featured numerous times in Variety’s prestigious annual Dealmakers Impact Report. He is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law where he helped resurrect the Berkeley Entertainment Law Society and was an Associate Editor on the CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW. As a law student, he also produced Professor Robert Berring’s COMMANDO LEGAL RESEARCH videotape series, which pioneered the use of video to teach legal research. Prior to law school, Dave spent 3 years as a television news producer for CNN and NBC.