Mr. Cranston is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Staff Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard University where he was a Marshall Field Scholar. Prior to joining the Firm, he was a Senior Director of Business Affairs at ESPN, negotiating technology and content licensing agreements for the distribution of content and applications across digital and traditional media. He also handled a wide variety of corporate transactional matters including the structuring, negotiation and execution of numerous acquisition transactions and regularly advised the company on employment related matters, including the negotiation and drafting of employment agreements with key talent and management personnel with a focus on litigation avoidance. Mr. Cranston previously was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Mr. Cranston is a member of the Firm's Diversity Committee.
