Neema Sahni
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP
Neema Sahni is a litigation partner with deep media industry expertise. Through her work at the firm, and her prior experience in-house as Corporate Legal Counsel: Distribution at The Walt Disney Company, Sahni has developed a sophisticated understanding of the legal issues facing clients in the sports, media, and entertainment industries. Alongside an active litigation docket, Sahni maintains a robust counseling and advisory practice, assisting sports teams and leagues, television networks, and film studios to assess and mitigate their litigation risk in the context of high-stakes business transactions.
Sahni’s diversified litigation experience includes trials and appeals in state and federal court, arbitration proceedings, and agency adjudications. Most recently, she obtained a pro bono victory securing the release of two clients from the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement civil detention facility in Southern California, whose health conditions put them at a high risk for complications arising from COVID-19.
