Overview
Businesses and individuals in the sports and entertainment industry face a broad range of complex and specialized legal issues including mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, corporate finance, league governance issues, real estate, intellectual property, labor/employment, and litigation. For more than 25 years, Keating Muething & Klekamp has been advising a diverse mix of clients on a variety of sports and entertainment transactions and matters. KMK Law attorneys understand the way the industry works, how the relevant legal issues intersect with our clients’ interests, and can provide clients with high-quality legal representation at Midwest rates.
KMK Law’s interdisciplinary group of attorneys can guide you through a broad range of matters, including:
- Business Representation & Transactions: Sports industry mergers & acquisitions, including controlling and non-controlling sports team acquisitions, investments, and divestitures, acquisitions of sports businesses, naming rights and other sponsorship agreements, media rights agreements, and other commercial agreements.
- Finance: Sports-related financial transactions, including stadium and team financings.
- Intellectual Property & Data Privacy: Marketing, advertising, promotions, privacy, copyright, trademark, licensing, domain name, social media, and other intellectual property matters.
- Labor & Employment: Negotiations and compliance with collective bargaining agreements; coach, player, and executive employment contracts and executive compensation packages; local, state, and federal compliance with hiring, pay, wage and hour, and other labor and employment related laws, obligations, and requirements; pre-hire and onboarding assistance; background checks; policy, handbook, rules, and regulations drafting and promulgation; arbitration, litigation, administrative hearings, and court appearances.
- Litigation: Arbitrations, investigations, TCPA matters, and other sports-related litigation.
- Real Estate: All aspects of the zoning and project entitlements, multiple parcel acquisitions and consolidations, utility relocations and extensions, easement and restrictions, governmental processes involved in street vacations/ sales, and construction and financing documentation and processes associated with construction and management of sporting venues, and leasing and project management arrangements for sporting facilities. Experience with industrial revenue bond and/or TIF incentives for the development of sports, entertainment, and tourism venues.
- Private Client Services: Estate and tax planning for athletes, coaches, and executives, youth matters in connection with youth sports, and domestic relations issues for athletes, coaches, and executives that include prenuptial agreements, termination of marriage, child support, and paternity cases.
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