Corey N. Martin is the Managing Partner of Granderson Des Rochers LLP (“GDR”), a full-service entertainment and media-focused law firm with offices in Beverly Hills and New York. Mr. Martin is also Chairman of the GDR Entertainment Finance Department, in that role overseeing all corporate transactional matters involving the Firm’s clients, consisting of companies and talent representing music, film, television, digital media, sports and technology. His practice areas of expertise include mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. In addition to corporate transactional legal services, the GDR Entertainment Finance Department also provides strategic consulting and advisory services. In connection with its consulting and advisory services, the GDR Entertainment Finance Department supports entertainers, athletes and celebrities seeking to achieve their entrepreneurial ambitions by structuring the formation of their companies and aligning them with venture capital, family office and private equity investors.

Over the past 22 years, Martin has worked diligently as a seasoned advisor and counselor to a diverse array of high-profile clients including Macro Media, an Academy Award-winning film and television production company, Quality Control, a Grammy Award-winning record company, Cashmere, an Ad Age Award-winning advertising agency and Hebru Brantley, a world-renowned visual artist.

Prior to the launch of GDR, Mr. Martin was a Partner at Davis Shapiro & Lewit LLP, a Partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP, and he began his legal career in the late 1990’s at Shearman & Sterling, LLP.

Mr. Martin graduated with a B.B.A. in Finance from Howard University and earned his legal degree at the University’s School of Law where he graduated with honors, was a member of the Howard University Law Journal and was the Vice President of the Student Bar Association.