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Jordan Bromley

Jordan Bromley is highly sought after as an entertainment advisor and consistently on the pulse of the latest market trends. Jordan leads Manatt Entertainment, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected practices. Jordan mentors both new associates and tenured colleagues, driving the Entertainment group’s growth and artist-first approach. He has helped artists across the country build their brands, capitalize on business opportunities and advocate for their rights across the rapidly evolving entertainment landscape.

He has been recognized by Billboard as one of “Music’s Most Powerful Attorneys” and a “Top Music Lawyer,” named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers: Top Music Attorneys, Variety’s Dealmakers Impact Report and named the Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by The Recorder. Jordan has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the country’s foremost transactional lawyers in the entertainment industry. Jordan is named to the Los Angeles Times’ 2025 and 2024 Entertainment Visionaries list. In Chambers feedback, clients have stated “Jordan is a great legal practitioner and business adviser. He has a wealth of knowledge and is well connected.”  He has been called a “brilliant lawyer,” and lauded as “the best there is. Period.”

Jordan leverages a robust bench of deeply experienced professionals from both legal and commercial standpoints who use their deep understanding of how the business operates to help guide artists, creators and talent across the entertainment industry through emerging opportunities in the evolving creator economy.

Jordan led Manatt’s entertainment team in providing pro bono legal counsel to the event organizers of FireAid LA’s 2025 benefits concert, held in efforts to support and rebuild communities impacted by the January 2025 Los Angeles fires. In less than two weeks, Jordan and his team drafted and negotiated almost 100 agreements and amendments with streamers, sponsors, talent, venues, and related production entities. The event raised over $100 million.

Recognizing that creators are often CEOs of a global brands, ambassadors and strategists, Jordan emphasizes that his responsibility is to provide opportunity, advocacy, support and protection for their activities in all countries and mediums.

A staunch advocate of creators’ rights, Jordan devises and implements strategies to influence legislation and policy affecting IP and creators in the entertainment industry. He is the President of the . In this role, among other accomplishments, Jordan has protected artists from predatory practices of content aggregators in the age of AI, cemented songwriters’ rights of post-termination income collection in the United States, and drafted the music business exemption to the California AB5 employment reclassification law.

Jordan is an authority on the streaming economy and known for his thought leadership. His royalty infographic, “,” provided the first complete picture of how money flows to every participant in the value chain. With over a dozen separate data points, the infographic remains the most comprehensive and accurate existing view of U.S. streaming royalties. He is frequently published in and quoted by publications covering music issues, such as Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Hill and Financial Times.

Jordan founded the in 2023, providing a much-needed space for creators and supporters of performance and visual arts. The Center’s haven in Los Angeles provides a nurturing environment where diverse thinkers converge, commune and collaborate to cultivate positive global change. Jordan is also the owner of the , that displays the simple message, “I Like You Very Much,” and which has been bringing smiles to passersby since 2011. The billboard has become a popular site to promote album releases, focused on the messaging and the presentation of art, rather than selling a product.  

Prior to becoming an attorney, Jordan cofounded Golden Mean Management, a Bay Area rap label and management, marketing and distribution company. He also cofounded and developed Hip Hop Congress, an international nonprofit organization that uses hip hop music and culture to inspire social and civic action among young people.

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