Maxwell Briskman Stanfield
Maxwell Briskman Stanfield is a creative problem solver. His knowledge and experience lend to a range of clients across a number of industries covering a broad spectrum of corporate, business, financial, commercial real estate, hospitality, entertainment, and media industry transactions.
He regularly assists clients with contract drafting and interpretation; business acquisitions, sales, and divestitures; commercial real estate acquisition and sales; commercial real estate leasing and licensing arrangements; financing arrangements (traditional bank financings, CMBS, equity raises); exempt-securities transactions; franchise agreements; business entity formation and structure; and nonprofit organization matters.
Maxwell also has experience with master service agreements, terms and conditions, terms of service, and statements of work, as well as software licensing agreements.
Within his entertainment and media practice, Maxwell assists marketing and branding agencies, production companies, fashion designers, artists, entertainers, gaming companies, and other creative-industry professionals with all aspects of their art form and their business – from advising on general business and intellectual property matters to assisting with any of the business and transactional needs mentioned above.
Maxwell was voted for inclusion in the inaugural 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, for Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and again for the 2022 edition for both Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law, an honor based on rigorous peer review, and achieved by less than 1% of all practicing attorneys nationwide.
He is the past Chairperson of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Corporate, Banking & Business Law Section. Within the firm, he is a member of the Corporate & Business Law, Real Estate & Lending, Intellectual Property, and Nonprofit Practice Groups and serves as the firm’s Meritas young lawyer contact.
Maxwell Briskman Stanfield is a partner with Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, a law firm of more than 60 attorneys handling a wide variety of business transactions, corporate litigation, and technology and intellectual property matters.