From the expansion to established, the Exemplar Sports Law team will tackle your franchise’s or league’s legal and business needs at all levels. Our team of ‘seasoned veterans’ understand the operations, challenges and opportunities teams and leagues face at the professional, collegiate, and amateur levels. We will work alongside clients to ensure they experience continued success on and off the court. Our competencies include:

 
• Drafting ownership and operating agreements
 
• Drafting acquisition and transfer contracts
 
• Various tax issues facing franchises and leagues
 
• Financing and strategy
 
• Negotiations with players and personnel
 
• Litigation

When the big game kicks-off, owners and officials want to guarantee their broadcasting and media rights are duly protected. Broadcasting rights and media contracts directly limit who can air footage of an event. The Exemplar expertise includes negotiating and drafting agreements for broadcast rights, enforcing the Sports Broadcasting Act, as well as ensuring adherence to antitrust and unfair competition laws.

Exemplar currently represents television, radio, cable, broadband, wireless broadcasting companies, and multimedia companies, as well as new media involved in interactive television and web-based broadcasting, specific programs, and investors in these entities. Exemplar recognizes the broadcast industry’s competitive structure and complex technology, and understands the legislation and regulations under which it operates.

As fans and attorneys, the Exemplar Sports Initiative understands the collective bargaining agreements governing and guiding key personnel decisions at the professional level. Our firm leaders realize the value world-class athletes bring to organizations and the enormous revenues their success generates.

The Exemplar Sports Initiative further strives to maximize visibility and client earning potential by strategically marketing our clients for brand, product and service endorsements. We will tirelessly negotiate the highest value for our clients, while ensuring proper wealth management for long-term economic stability.

Whether building a new, state-of-the art venue or retrofitting hallowed grounds, the Exemplar Sports team has the tools, contacts and know-how to help you build your new home court advantage. From meeting with local officials, to financing your new stadium or arena, to drafting contractor agreements for construction, the Exemplar Sports Initiative will cover all your bases so your new facility will become a reality.

Exemplar understands the power of trademarks and brand awareness. As with all our clients across a spectrum of industries, our team works within the Lanham Act to protect your organization from dilution. We work directly alongside our clients to file your marks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and enforce your rights to intellectual property.