Sports & Entertainment:  Sports and Stadium Finance

Our team serves as counsel to clients involved in a wide array of sports finance matters. We advise club owners, professional sports leagues, investors, and lenders in the areas of project finance, leveraged finance, securitizations, securities offerings, and government-sponsored financings. Our broad range of experience and integrated approach to transactions provides clients with the value-added solutions they need to successfully finance their sports related assets.

Service offerings include:

  • Stadium finance and development
  • Club debt
  • League debt
  • Securitizations
  • Leveraged financings
  • Capital markets transactions
  • Financial restructuring and insolvency matters

In particular, our team has earned a reputation as a market leader in the area of stadium finance and development. In this area, we have advised on transactions that have utilized a broad range of financing structures, including straightforward government owned, sponsored and financed projects, public/private partnerships, private joint ventures, and 100% privately owned and project-financed facilities.

Our attorneys have extensive experience interacting with the various major sports leagues, and have negotiated and drafted virtually every type of contract and agreement related to the use and financing of sports facilities. Recent transactions include financings aggregating over $5 billion for the NFL and the following NFL franchises: New York Giants, New York Jets (Project Finance magazine’s North American 2007 Leisure Deal of the Year), Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots; MLB’s New York Yankees (Bond Buyer’s 2006 Deal of the Year), New York Mets and Minnesota Twins; and the NBA’s Orlando Magic.
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