A Katten team led by Sports and Sports Facilities Partner and Co-Chair Daniel Render acted as legal advisor to Blue Owl HomeCourt Partners’ fund (HomeCourt), a division of Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital platform in connection with its purchase of a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers. HomeCourt, which partnered with the NBA in 2020…
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The Drake Gorup has announced a new slate of officers and board members, which follow below: President (2026-2028) KASSANDRA RAMSEY, Esq., is the founder of The Law Office of Kassandra Ramsey, P.L.L.C., assisting entrepreneurs, athletes, entertainers, and social media influencers with creating, operating, and protecting their businesses. Ramsey is the Sports Law Chair for the…
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Proskauer has added Jeff Pash as a partner in its Sports Group in New York. Pash served as executive vice president and general counsel of the National Football League from 1997 to 2025. In that role, he advised league leadership on legal, labor, governance and business matters, including antitrust litigation, collective bargaining, investigations, and the…
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP represented Denver Summit FC, Colorado’s National Women’s Soccer League franchise, in the development of its training facility and interim stadium in Centennial and continues to advise the club on development of its permanent home stadium and adjacent mixed-use district in Denver’s Santa Fe Yards area. Denver Real Estate Shareholders Kevin H. Kelley…
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By Gregg E. Clifton and Matthew J. Martinez International student-athletes have always had to plan their immigration status around NCAA eligibility rules. Beginning September 15, 2026, many of these same student-athletes will also need to plan around a new immigration requirements. A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule replaces the longstanding “Duration of Status”…
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Long-time sports lawyer Peter Goplerud will join the Culture in Sports Culture Roundtable webinar on July 23 to discuss the evolving challenges of governing college sports. The conversation will cover topics including NCAA compliance, name, image and likeness (NIL), and athletic integrity. Throughout his career, Peter Goplerud has served as a law school dean, taught…
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The Texas Tribune reported Wednesday that Texas Tech University Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell contributed $274,300 to a fundraising committee supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton one day before Paxton’s office intervened in the legal dispute involving former Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby. Campaign finance records filed with the Federal Election Commission show Campbell…
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The Nashville Predators have hired Vukie Mpofu as assistant general manager, adding an executive whose background combines hockey operations with legal expertise in player contracts, collective bargaining agreement compliance, and salary cap administration. Mpofu, earned his Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, joins the Predators after spending the past three seasons with the Pittsburgh…
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By Katelyn Kohler, Esq. A federal appeals panel signaled this month that it will likely hand the National Basketball Association (NBA) its second consecutive win in a long-running privacy lawsuit over fan-tracking advertising technology, but not without one sitting judge publicly disagreeing with the legal standard compelling that result. On June 16, 2026, the U.S.…
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised NJ/NY Gotham FC in an agreement with New York City FCunder which Gotham FC will play its home matches at Etihad Park beginning in 2028. The agreement, announced this week by the clubs, will make Gotham FC a primary tenant at the new soccer-specific stadium in Queens. The move…
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