About
Where Talent
Comes Home
Representation worldwide · By appointment
Maison is a private management house for people whose work has outgrown handling itself. We read your contracts, run your business, protect your name, and think about where you will be in ten years rather than only in three months.
Disciplines
Under one roof
Worldwide
Reach
By appointment
Rights-first
Representation
Every engagement
By referral
Admission
Representation by introduction
On how we get paid
The usual arrangement, and what it quietly rewards.
Almost everyone in this business takes a cut of what you earn. It sounds fair, and mostly it is. But look at what it quietly rewards: more jobs, more bookings, a bigger number this quarter. Nothing in that arrangement points at the year you need to slow down, or the offer you should walk away from.
We would rather be straight about it. Turning something down is part of what you are paying us for. It is not money we lost. Every deal we sign keeps your right to open the books and check the math yourself, so you never have to take our word for it.
The house was built around a lawyer rather than a sales desk, which is why it reads your agreement and not only your offer. Judge us on what is still standing ten years after your next booking rather than on the booking.
Every Friday
A statement
What you earned, what is still owed, and what has landed
Open books
Your right, in writing
Check the math, or have your own accountant check it
Leadership
Anthony Clemenza
Founder & Managing Director
Anthony Clemenza is an attorney admitted in New York and the founder of Clemenza Law Group, where he practices entertainment law. He studied under Chief Justice John Roberts at a program in Europe and served as business editor of his law review, and he has been publishing on legal matters since.
He has also built and run companies of his own, sitting in every seat from chief executive to general counsel. That is mostly what you want in the person reading your agreement: he knows what the other side is trying to keep, and where in the document they usually put it.
He founded Maison so that representation would be a fiduciary practice before it was anything else. In plain terms, that means the house owes you a duty rather than a service, and you can check whether it kept it.
He also chairs the board of The Legacy Foundation, the charity this house gives a fifth of its net proceeds to. That is money moving between two organizations he is part of, and you should hear it from us rather than find it. The whole arrangement, and what keeps it from running in a circle, is set out on the giving page.
The full credentials
The Pillars
What We Stand For
Protection
We read every contract before you sign it, argue the usage terms down to specifics, and take down the people pretending to be you.
Excellence
Most of what management is worth never shows up in a contract. It is the offer we tell you to refuse, and the number we will not move off once we have set it.
Discretion
Your privacy goes into the agreement as a term we argue for. We do not talk about the people we represent, to anyone, and what you tell us about a job reaches our lawyer alone.
Legacy
What you own has to keep earning after the work stops. We start building it while you can still set the terms, which is years before most people think to ask.
Begin a conversation.
The house opens by referral and introduction, and you can write to the Private Office directly whether you are talent or a brand. You will hear back from a person within one business day.
The Private OfficeThe documented record this house was built in answer to is in Why This House Exists.