David Shraga

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’s approach is grounded in rapport and transparency, built before any movement toward resolution begins. He surfaces what is actually driving each side beneath the stated position, and draws on his own experience as a party in litigation to help clients understand what is genuinely at stake, in terms that land beyond the legal arguments. He is candid about the real risks of an unpredictable litigation system, willing to name plainly when a case is not ready to settle, and direct with both sides about what the evidence and the system actually support. When parties are stuck, he finds the solution neither side has raised yet, reframes what resolution can look like, and makes the case for why it works long term. His measure of a successful mediation is not the settlement agreement alone; it is whether every party leaves better positioned than when they arrived.

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.

For attorneys navigating complex commercial and entertainment disputes, David offers a rare depth of understanding of the business pressures, evolving relationships, and legal stakes that bring parties to the table. As the entertainment industry continues to transform, its convergence with rapidly evolving technologies, including artificial intelligence, creating new commercial relationships, new fault lines, and disputes with no established roadmap, parties will increasingly need a neutral who can meet them at the intersection of legal complexity and business reality. David meets that demand with candor, cross-side credibility, and a genuine commitment to resolution that serves everyone in the room.