Taking a Deep Dive Into André Des Rochers’ Career
André Des Rochers is a decorated New York and Beverly Hills-based sports and entertainment lawyer. He attended Howard University SOL and was admitted to the California Bar on 19th July 2018. In July 2019, he became a founding partner at Granderson Des Rochers, LLP, representing numerous clients in television and film transactions.
He has represented different clients, including producers, authors, writers, directors, and actors, who include Golden Globe and Academy Award nominees and winners. André Des Rochers also worked at Gray Krauss LLP, a New York-based law firm founded by Jonathan Gray and Evan Krauss.
While at the firm, he focused on music, film, new media, and television. He strived at representing directors, writers, producers, and production companies. André Des Rochers was promoted to a partner in the firm in 2009 after several of the attorneys from the law firm went to the Sundance festival as counsel and production counsel to 12 films.
He joined Gray Krauss LLP in 2005 after leaving Shearman and Sterling LLP. At the multinational firm, André Des Rochers focused on corporate transaction law. Gray Krauss praised Des Rochers for his impressive move from transnational corporate law to making a name for himself in the sports and entertainment sector.
Throughout his career, he has been offered legal services and has been a production or legal counsel for numerous films. Some of the most-known ones include ‘Spinning Plates,’ Mother of George,’ ‘Beginners,’ ‘Tanner Hall,’ ‘ The Lottery,’ ‘ Lovely Still,’ ‘Home,’ ‘Colombiana,’ ‘ Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ ‘Blue Gold: American Jeans,’ ‘and The Burning Child.’ André Des Rochers is up to now the most reliable entertainment lawyer currently at practice.