Usman Shaikh is the Founder and Managing Attorney of U.S. Law Group. His practice focuses on corporate, entertainment, and intellectual property transactions.

Usman takes a business-minded and interdisciplinary approach to client representation, advising entrepreneurs, startups, investors, production companies, and creative talent. He leverages longstanding relationships across multiple industries to help clients structure, negotiate, and close complex transactions.

Usman also has extensive experience structuring domestic and cross-border transactions, particularly in the GCC  region (i.e., Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain).

Among other accolades, Usman has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and featured in the LA Times’ Entertainment Business Visionaries and the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Leaders of Influence annual lists.

Usman began his legal career in New York as a corporate attorney at the international law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, and later practiced at the Wall Street firm Seward & Kissel LLP

During his time in New York, Usman worked on a wide range of corporate transactions in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Securities, Secured Lending, and Structured Finance.

Prior to forming U.S. Law Group, Usman was at ICM Partners (now part of CAA), one of the leading talent agencies in Hollywood, where he worked with business affairs in negotiating and structuring talent, production and financing deals, and gained hands-on experience in the entertainment deal-making process.

In addition to managing U.S. Law Group, Usman is actively engaged in public policy and civic affairs, with a focus on issues affecting Los Angeles and its residents. He has served as a policy advisor to a candidate in California’s 52nd Congressional District and currently serves as a policy advisor to a candidate running for Los Angeles City Council District 5.

Usman is a member of the National Society of Entertainment & Arts Lawyers (NSEAL) and the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce.