Sports

Sheppard Mullin's Sports Industry Team offers the multi-disciplinary expertise necessary to provide full-service legal counsel to leagues and governing bodies, owners, teams, facility operators, key rights holders, advertising clientele, sponsors, promoters, developers and others involved in sports-related transactions or disputes.

Our attorneys have a great deal of experience handling sports-related transactions, including sports marketing agreements with NFL, MLB and NHL teams, sponsorship agreements with top NASCAR racing teams, FIFA, the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour and various media and communications companies, ambush marketing initiatives affiliated with marquee professional and collegiate sporting events, athlete endorsement agreements, and franchise acquisitions. We have also led development and land use projects for NFL stadiums and MLB parks.

Our litigators have extensive trial and arbitration experience, including pre-litigation analyses and dispute resolution with Major League Baseball and the MLBPA, the National Football League and the NFLPA, the National Hockey League and other leagues and sports associations. We have represented networks, film studios, sports and media conglomerates, and facilities in a wide variety of disputes involving intellectual property, antitrust, litigation, labor and employment, real estate and public affairs.