Elevating creatives, artists and content creators with bespoke legal expertise.
232 Legal supports and protects the rights of artists, content creators and producers as they navigate the legal aspects of the emerging digital world. In addition to traditional film and television projects, we focus on zealously representing the interests of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, OnlyFans and other paid digital content creators.
Services
Business & Legal Affairs
Strategic dealmaking and drafting for day-to-day development work and talent agreements, license deals and partnerships. Up-to-date guidance on constantly-shifting regulatory landscape. Individual representation for artists and content creators.
Production Legal
Full-service support for all legal aspects of digital, film, documentary and TV projects, from development and production through delivery and distribution.
Intellectual Property
Skilled guidance in protecting existing IP, structuring and negotiating complex adaptation rights and licensing agreements, and transforming existing IP into exciting film, documentary & TV projects.
Fractional GC
Customized, on-demand legal expertise for entertainment, tech and media companies, offering strategic corporate guidance and risk management without the overhead of full-time in-house counsel.
About
Yasmin F. Karimi
Yasmin has a B.A. from NYU and a J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School. In 2023, she left Netflix and founded her own practice, 232 Legal.
With over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry, Yasmin has specialized in guiding artists and producers throughout the development and production of their films, television and documentary projects. She now primarily focuses on digital content creators, acting as a strategic partner in helping creators protect their intellectual property and develop their brands.
Yasmin began her career at the law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP in their Entertainment, Technology & Advertising division before joining Levity Live where she ran Business & Legal Affairs, working on unscripted programming, managing legal operations of the IMPROV and Levity Live comedy clubs and guiding the company’s comedy management team. She joined IMAGINE Entertainment as their first in-house counsel before joining Netflix’s Original Films group.
Understanding the need for full-service strategic legal services in the new creator-first digital ecosystem, Yasmin left Netflix’s Film group and founded 232 Legal. She is an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at Boston University’s Los Angeles campus. She attended Vanderbilt Law School and New York University, and is licensed to practice law in the State of California. She lives in Los Angeles, CA and Brooklyn, NY.
