Content, licensing and production negotiations
Rights and distribution meetings, co-production discussions and studio visits, where the vocabulary is contractual and industry-specific at the same time.
On the ground in Los AngelesHQ São PauloRemote worldwide
Los AngelesLos Angeles: media, technology and the Pacific trade lane.
STIB has professional interpreters and simultaneous interpreting equipment on the ground in Los Angeles, for the negotiations that bring content, technology and cargo across the Pacific and the Americas — and for the executive itineraries built around them.
What we are booked for in Los Angeles
Where the language work actually happens here
Partnership and engineering reviews
Product and platform discussions between international teams — the setting where a mistranslated technical constraint becomes a missed deadline.
Port, freight and supply-chain meetings
Operational meetings around the Pacific trade lane: capacity, customs documentation, terminal and warehouse visits.
Conferences, awards and industry programmes
Multilingual sessions and press activity around the industry calendar, with interpreting equipment and technical support.
Studios, facilities and plant tours
Mobile escort interpreting where the group is walking and the interpreter has to work without a booth.
Multi-day executive agendas
One interpreter across a week that spans several neighbourhoods, several counterparties and one long drive between them.
Local reality
What we plan for
Two things distinguish an assignment in Los Angeles from one in a compact business district.
Distance is part of the schedule
Appointments are spread across the metropolitan area. Interpreter time is booked around realistic travel between venues rather than the agenda's optimistic gaps, which is also why a single interpreter for the day is usually cheaper than three separate half-day bookings.
Media work has two vocabularies at once
A rights negotiation is a legal conversation wearing industry vocabulary. Interpreters are matched to people who have worked both registers, and the glossary is agreed before the meeting rather than improvised in it.
Languages
Pairs we are asked for in Los Angeles
English ↔ PortugueseEnglish ↔ SpanishMandarinKoreanJapaneseFrenchGermanItalian40+ languages via our network
Brazilian Portuguese ↔ English is our core pair. Asian-language pairs are frequently requested for Pacific trade and technology assignments and are staffed from our interpreter network.
Process
From brief to the meeting
Send the agenda
Dates, venues across the metro area, languages and the nature of each meeting.
Interpreter and NDA
Matched by language pair and by industry register; confidentiality agreement signed first.
Preparation
Contracts, decks and product terminology studied in advance; equipment specified where a session needs it.
On the day
The interpreter travels the agenda with you, including the site visits and the drive between them.
Straight answers
Questions we are asked about this assignment
Does STIB have interpreters in Los Angeles?
Yes. STIB has professional interpreters and simultaneous interpreting equipment on the ground in Los Angeles, alongside New York and Miami. STIB's offices are in São Paulo and Brasília, Brazil; the United States cities are working locations rather than offices.
Can one interpreter cover meetings in different parts of the city on the same day?
Yes, and it is usually the better arrangement. A single interpreter booked for the day travels the agenda with you, which keeps terminology consistent and avoids paying separate minimums for each half-day booking. Travel time between venues is built into the schedule when the assignment is planned.
Do you handle interpreting for media and entertainment negotiations?
Yes. Rights, licensing, co-production and distribution meetings are interpreted by professionals matched to that register, because these conversations combine contractual language with industry-specific vocabulary. Terminology is agreed in advance from the documents under discussion.
Is subtitling or dubbing available alongside interpreting?
Yes. Video dubbing and subtitling are separate services offered by the same firm, which is useful when a meeting produces material that then needs to reach an audience in another language.
What if the meeting is remote instead of on site?
Remote simultaneous interpreting runs on the platform the meeting already uses — Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Webex — with no travel on either side, and can be arranged at shorter notice than an on-site assignment.
Are your interpreters bound by an NDA?
Yes. Interpreters work under a non-disclosure agreement, and STIB signs the client's own agreement when required. Scripts, contracts and product material shared for preparation are covered by it.
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Tell us about the assignment.
Dates, city, languages and the kind of room you will be in. You get the interpreter profile, the setup each session needs and a scoped proposal.