Our Sports Ventures Unit advises our clients on all aspects of corporate law including investments, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance in the sports business and media sectors.
There has never been a greater time of change in the sports business, as media and technology developments lead to new ways of packaging rights and transacting with sports fans. Our unrivalled understanding of the ever-changing landscape of the sports business, together with years of transactional experience, enable us to provide first class corporate finance and M&A services to sports business clients.
The services provided by our Sports Ventures Unit include:
- Understanding and defining the value drivers in sports, media and technology businesses, assisting with business planning and information memoranda
- Research into and identification of strategic options, opportunities and potential buyers, investors or targets
- Making introductions to potential buyers, targets or brokers
- Advising upon optimum structures for businesses and transactions
- Managing/conducting due diligence
- Negotiating M&A, investment and other corporate transactions and drafting all transaction documentation
- Continuing advice on business operations and corporate governance issues
Contacts: Satish Khandke, Dan Harrington, Mark Whitehead, Nic Couchman
Recent transaction experience includes advising:
- Athlete representation agencies on sales of businesses to competitors
- Sports technology suppliers on growth strategy through acquisitions of competitors
- A sports information provider on investment by third party software company
- A company on sale of event management business
- A sports television rights agency on sale of business
- An investor on acquisition of UK football club
- Mobile wireless content companies on third party investment
- A broadband content services company on third party investment
- A trust on acquisition of sports assets from an administrator
- Advising on the sale of a 50 year old sports car brand