Practice Areas
Sports Law
The sports industry consists of established organizations, innovative emerging companies, highly trained performers and just about everything in between. In this highly competitive environment, our clients seek sophisticated and experienced counsel to address a broad range of legal challenges. Our team is highly skilled and experienced attorneys ready to help our clients operating in the sports industry efficiently meet their business objectives and solve their problems on and off the field of play. Our clients include universities, athletes, teams, team owners, private equity investors and other businesses operating within the sports industry.
Our sports law attorneys can assist with:
Our attorneys’ experience spans a variety of sports and includes a wide range of legal disciplines, including the negotiation of the M&A purchase and sale transactions of professional sports teams, university name, image, and likeness (NIL) arrangements, personnel employment disputes and agreements, stadium lease agreements, and other sports related commercial contracts, matters and adversarial situations.
Representative Experience:
- Successfully negotiated and closed the sale of a Minor League Baseball team.
- Represented sports organizations in various disputes and employment related matters.
- Negotiated transactions involving private equity investments in sports-related media organizations.
- Provide general outside counsel representation for multiple professional sports organizations and collegiate organizations.
- Negotiated NIL arrangements between athletes and private businesses.
- Negotiated stadium leases and stadium sharing arrangements.
- Assisted in establishment and ongoing representation of various nonprofit organizations focused on athletics and athletic development.
- Negotiated various sponsorship arrangements related to professional sports organizations.
- Reviewed and negotiated various player and coach contracts related to professional and collegiate sports.
- Provided estate and wealth transfer planning representation to athletes and owners of professional sports organizations.
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