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Winston & Strawn LLP
Counting sports franchises, financial service providers, and governmental entities amongst its key clients, the team at Winston & Strawn LLP has extensive experience acting in high-profile litigation and arbitration proceedings in addition to advising on project developments and financing transactions. The practice is highly regarded for assisting companies and institutional investors in securing media rights, obtaining license agreements, and managing sponsorship assets. The practice is headed by David Feher, David Greenspan, and Jeffrey Kessler, with the trio specializing in complex sports labor law proceedings, antitrust litigation, and finance issues surrounding NFL and NBA teams. Alan Hoffman is an expert on conventional financing structures, Jonathan Amoona routinely represents athletes across all sports in arbitration claims, and San Francisco-based Jeanifer Parsigian is a key for regarding gender-discrimination lawsuits. Sofia Arguello focuses on salary and benefit-related matters, whilst Jason Hellwig and Jason Goldstein serve as key contacts for real estate finance and infrastructure projects. Adam Dale is knowledgeable on employment related issues, and all lawyers are New York-based unless otherwise stated.
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Key clients
- North American Soccer League
- Relevent Sports, LLC
- National Basketball Players Association
- U.S. Women’s National Team soccer players
- William Morris Endeavor
- Cangrejeros Baseball Club, LLC
- United Talent Agency
- National Football League Players Association
- Activision Blizzard
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
Work highlights
- Advised a number of college athletes in connection with an ongoing House antitrust case against the NCAA.
- Represented a group of institutional investors in connection with the issuance of senior secured notes secured by media rights, sponsorship assets, and intellectual property rights owned by ASR Media and Sponsorship S.p.A., an affiliate of AS Roma.
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Winston & Strawn LLP
https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/greenspan-david.html An accomplished antitrust, sports, and complex-commercial litigator, Dave Greenspan counsels clients on wide-ranging matters and represents them both at trial and on appeal. Dave Co-Chairs Winston’s top-ranked Sports Law Practice. One of the nation’s leading sports law litigators, Dave has litigated sports-industry cases involving antitrust law, labor law, licensing, agent regulation, active and retired player rights, and collegiate athlete rights. Dave has represented all four major U.S. professional sports players associations, myriad professional athletes and agents, and on occasion teams and owners in disputes with their respective leagues. He was trial and appellate counsel in the landmark Alston v. NCAA antitrust litigation, wherein the team prevailed at trial and that culminated in a widely reported unanimous Supreme Court victory.
Winston & Strawn LLP
https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/amoona-jonathan.html#full-bio “One of sports law’s rising litigators” and “brightest stars” according to Forbes, Jonathan Amoona has served as counsel in some of the most significant sports legal matters in recent history and has successfully represented numerous athletes, players unions, sports agents, and agencies.
Winston & Strawn LLP
https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/feher-david-g.html#full-bio David Feher has been recognized in Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2005–2023 as “one of the country’s leading sports attorneys.” He also was recognized in The Legal 500 US 2019 for his work in Sports Law and International Litigation, selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2019–2023 in the field of Sports Law, selected in the first 100 Lawdragon’s “New Stars” in 2006, and honored in 2010–2019 by New York Super Lawyers.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Feher, David Greenspan, Jeffrey Kessler