Suna Izgi is an associate in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. Suna’s practice is focused primarily on music talent representation. She has extensive experience in negotiating recording and distribution agreements, publishing agreements, management agreements and terminations, branding and endorsement agreements and licensing agreements. In addition to talent-side representation, Suna’s practice includes legal counsel for music publishing rightsholders, catalog sales, and music for film, television and podcasts.
Prior to joining Manatt, Suna accumulated valuable experience in entertainment transactions and entertainment litigation in various settings as a law clerk. In these roles, Suna gained experience in responding to novel issues arising from the intersection of technology and the music industry with a focus on protecting independent creators.
Suna attended Southwester Law School in Los Angeles, CA where she graduated magna cum laude in 2021 with a concentration in entertainment and media law. In her final year of law school, she was accepted into the Amicus Project practicum at Southwestern, where, with the help of her practicum advisors, she researched, wrote and successfully filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in the case The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al.,advocating for a uniform standard for character copyrightability that would protect independent creators. Suna earned her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Virginia, where she was a singer-songwriter and executive board member of University Records (formerly known as O Records), a student-run record label.