Allison Hobbs is a Business and Legal Affairs executive with more than a decade of experience leading and advising across the television, film, streaming, technology, and media industries. She currently serves as Senior Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs at Samsung TV Plus, where she advises senior business leaders on strategic, commercial, and legal matters across Samsung’s FAST streaming business. Her work spans the full lifecycle of content and channels, from inception through distribution, as well as the technology and platform supporting the service.

Prior to Samsung TV Plus, Allison served as Senior Counsel, Communications Americas at Philip Morris International. As part of the company’s litigation department, she led legal support for communications and media across the Americas, advising on corporate communications, media, and litigation-related matters.

Previously, at Epic Games, Allison led legal affairs for the Special Projects team, partnering with senior executives to develop and launch new and confidential ventures. Her work included complex commercial transactions, content and media, music, union and guild matters, technology, strategic partnerships, intellectual property, product, and marketing.

At Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS), Allison structured and negotiated complex transactions involving the development, production, licensing, acquisition, and distribution of content. She also led a team of business and legal affairs executives supporting short-form production across Paramount+, Comedy Central, Showtime, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, Logo, and CMT.

Earlier in her career, Allison served as the sole attorney and head of Business and Legal Affairs at Big Tent Entertainment, where she led the company’s legal and business affairs globally and oversaw the worldwide protection and enforcement of its intellectual property portfolio.

Beyond her corporate roles, Allison is an active leader in the legal and entertainment communities. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association (BESLA) and is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Black Women Attorneys New York (ABWA).

Allison earned her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Connecticut and her J.D. from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.