SPORTS LAW GROUP

Marzano Lawyers PLLC’s sports law practice group offers a full spectrum of legal services to the sports industry. 

SPORTS RELATED TRANSACTIONS & MANAGEMENT

The firm provides counsel to domestic and international sports ownership groups, teams, athletes, leagues, agents, sponsors and franchises.  The firm’s attorneys advise on a wide range of domestic and foreign sports related transactional matters including:

  • Domestic and international franchise acquisitions
  • Team and player contract negotiations
  • Team and player buy-outs
  • Team and athlete sponsorship agreements
  • Athlete endorsement agreements
  • Domestic and international sports licensing and distribution agreements
  • Stadium and arena development, financing and construction
  • Broadcast programming agreements
  • Strategic sports business alliances

SPORTS INDUSTRY LITIGATION & ARBITRATION

Marzano Lawyers PLLC’s sports law practice group’s lawyers provide counsel and representation on numerous issues arising in any context of sports-related litigation or arbitration.  The sports law practice group litigators draw on the resources of the firm’s diverse range of practice areas, including commercial transactions, commercial real estate, intellectual property, employment law and construction law.  

The firm has successfully guided domestic and foreign teams, leagues, athletes, agents, sports ownership groups and sponsors through a broad range of sports industry domestic and foreign litigation and arbitration including:

  • Team dissolution
  • Owner disputes
  • Breach of contract matters
  • League investigations
  • Player and union disputes
  • Collective bargaining disputes
  • Crisis management and advice
  • Enforcing trademarks and copyrights

STADIUM AND SPORTS FACILITY DEVELOPMENT

Marzano Lawyers PLLC’s sports law practice group provides counsel on all phases of stadium development, financing and build-outs, as well as redevelopment and refinancing of existing stadiums and arenas.

Marzano Lawyers PLLC sports law practice group’s attorneys assist on sport’s facility related matters including:

  • Domestic and international sports stadium financing
  • Stadium and arena naming rights
  • All aspects of domestic and international stadium construction
  • Securing governmental approval of sports facility construction
  • Private and public stadium lease negotiations
  • Stadium capitalization and lending agreements
  • Stadium operations issues
  • Stadium related labor and employment matters
  • Concessions licensing agreements