Sports and Entertainment Properties

We are uniquely positioned to advise clients on acquiring, activating, and protecting sports, media, and entertainment assets. Our team brings professional sports front-office experience and extensive involvement in amateur sport across Canada. We advise ownership groups, teams, leagues, players, sanctioning organizations, and media distributors on a wide range of legal issues.

Our experience includes advising on the acquisition and divestiture of sport franchises, including majority and minority investments, for private equity clients and individual sponsors. We also assist media rights holders with complex licensing and distribution agreements and handle commercial arrangements like sponsorships, naming rights, and the management of other arena and stadium projects. Additionally, our team has experience in professional sports salary arbitration.