Fashion & Luxury: Where Creativity Meets Capital
I am a lawyer and strategic advisor. My law firm, Pearce LLP, was founded in 2003. For two decades, I’ve negotiated successful deals for creative leaders and business founders in the fashion and luxury industry.
I also advise founders and their potential investors in the negotiating process, identifying —- developing alignment that sets up the partnership for success.
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For creative professionals, I bring decades of experience to negotiating their creative services and other critical agreements.
For Founders, I have specific skills and expertise dedicated to representing their personal and business interests, protecting their IP and helping ensure that they exit on their own terms.
I help investors secure successful partnerships by ensuring alignment with the founder on critical issues - and addressing non-alignment - before signing the deal.
Further, I help investors motivate and retain the founder, their most valuable and least secure asset, by creating incentives which are both effective and investor-friendly.
I studied at Brown University and Columbia Law School before starting my law career with a Clerkship in the Southern District of NY. Thereafter I served as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, followed by ten years as an entertainment lawyer before focusing on fashion and luxury. I founded Pearce LLP in 2003. The practice maintains a business presence in NYC and Paris, and I am fluent in French.
“Imagine you’re a designer with talent dripping from your fingertips - Gucci wants you. Prada wants you. You want Elizabeth Pearce...” “…the fashion lawyer extraordinaire…”