Sports and Entertainment

Why Cooley

Clients within the sports and entertainment industry turn to Cooley on transformative deals, complex telecast, licensing, sponsorship, IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation, where innovation meets the law. Our traditional sports practice, combined with our unmatched experience in technology and emerging companies, allows us to serve the full range of sports industry clients, including professional sports teams and owners, telecasters and new media distributors, social media platforms, professional and collegiate sports leagues and organizations, brands, sponsors and advertisers, emerging ventures, investors, and individual professional athletes. Our work includes:

• Serving as counsel to the Pac-12 on governance, IP, international transactions and litigation
• Representing Junior Seau’s family in connection with concussion-related litigation, Roger Clemens in connection with PED allegations and Mark Cuban in connection with SEC enforcement
• Representing investors and emerging companies throughout their lifecycles, including developing, licensing, exploiting and activating sports-related rights – from messaging platforms, disruptive business models and OTT distributors