Maples and Calder's Sports and Media group has extensive experience providing specialist legal advice and transactional support on the structuring of Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Irish companies, partnerships and trusts for teams, athletes, governing bodies, broadcasters, sponsors, financial institutions and other stakeholders in the sports and media industries as well as negotiating related commercial contracts.
Our areas of expertise include the following:
Sports Ventures
Structured Finance
Intellectual Property
Media Rights
Personality/Athlete Services
Sports Ventures
Mergers and acquisitions/purchases of professional sports teams
Ownership holding structures
Joint ventures both with respect to investment in the sports industry and between sports entities, the media and technology companies
Private equity funds for the purposes of investing in sports ventures
Ownership and transfer of professional athletes
Structured Finance Securitisation of future flow revenue (ticket sales, broadcasting deals, royalties)
Sports related financings with respect to teams, leagues and stadium facilities by means of secured loan financing, credit facilities, bond issues, commercial paper and long term fixed rate debt facilities
Finance subsidiaries and branches
Captive insurance
Intellectual Property
Media Rights Media rights holding structures
Broadcasting – domestic and international television, radio and internet broadcasting agreements
Web, broadband and mobile wireless technology
Arrangements with respect to electronic media rights/business
Personality/Athlete Services Ownership of image and intellectual property rights
Image rights and intellectual property holding structures
Structured consultancy arrangements
Licensing of image and intellectual property rights on a regional and global basis
Media agreements
Endorsements
Investment funds
Trusts for consolidated ownership of diverse assets
Trusts for asset protection
Trusts for tax migration
Trusts for gifts or assets on death