Representative Experience

M&A

• Representing Advocate Aurora Health in its transformative combination with Atrium Health, resulting in Advocate Health, the fifth largest not-for-profit health care system in the nation.
• Representing Aurora Health Care in its merger with Advocate Health Care, resulting in Advocate Aurora Health, the tenth largest not-for-profit health care system in the nation.
• Representing a major aviation technology manufacturer in its acquisition of flight simulator projector technology.
• Representing a precision device company in its acquisition of microwave filters company.
• Representing the seller of a biodiesel facility.
• Representing Aspirus Health in its acquisition of seven hospitals, 21 physician clinics, and air and ground medical transport services from Ascension.

Kevin also serves the role of outside general counsel for a number of private companies, routinely advising them in connection with a variety of commercial matters, including supply agreements, sales representative agreements, licensing arrangements, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements, terms and conditions of sale and purchase, distribution of goods, and provision of services.

Sports Industry

Kevin also has extensive experience in the sports industry, where he advises sports clients (including professional sports teams, owners, and acquirers of professional sports teams, sports technology companies, colleges, sponsors, and media companies) in connection with a variety of M&A and commercial matters, including sales and acquisitions of professional sports franchises, licensing arrangements, sponsorship and naming rights agreements, talent and endorsement agreements, joint ventures, esports, stadium/arena service agreements, college multimedia rights agreements, NIL (name, image, and likeness), college sports apparel deals, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), formation of regional sports networks (RSNs), and television, radio, over-the-top (OTT)/streaming, and media rights agreements.

• Representing the ownership group led by Florida-based business executive Patrick Zalupski in the purchase of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays and United Soccer League’s Tampa Bay Rowdies.
• Representing Nissan in its naming rights deal with the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans for the new Nissan Stadium.
• Representing Fast Forward Sports Group in the sale of two Minor League Baseball franchises, the Akron RubberDucks and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, to Prospector Baseball Group.
• Representing a major university in its jersey patch sponsorship deal.
• Representing numerous sponsors in countless sponsorship deals, including deals with NBA teams, NFL teams, MLB teams, NHL teams, the NHL, the NHLPA, PGA of America, FIFA, U.S. Soccer Federation, WNBA teams, MLS teams, CFL teams, major colleges, and other sports properties.
• Representing the principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, Mark Attanasio, and his investor group on their acquisition of a minority stake in English football (soccer) club Norwich City Football Club.
• Representing Enterprise Holdings, Inc. in its naming rights deal with the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues for Enterprise Center.
• Representing a major university in its sports apparel deal.
• Representing PeoplesBank in its naming rights agreement with Oak View Group and the Capital Region Development Authority to rename the 16,000-seat sports and entertainment venue in Hartford, Connecticut, as PeoplesBank Arena.
• Representing the Milwaukee Brewers in the acquisition of the team’s Class A Minor League Baseball affiliate the Carolina Mudcats.
• Representing multiple major universities in their multimedia rights deals.
• Representing the Milwaukee Bucks President and Owner Herbert Kohl in his sale of the NBA franchise to New York investment firm executives Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens, the then largest transaction ever in the NBA, including a requirement in the deal that the team be kept in Milwaukee, with the parties collectively pledging a significant amount toward the development of a new arena.
• Representing the owner of an NBA team in its internal reorganization aimed at separating non-sports entertainment properties from the NBA-related holdings, and also helping the team explore options for renovations to modernize the facility and find solutions for gaining public support of a renovation project.
• Representing Guggenheim Baseball Management (the ownership group for the Los Angeles Dodgers) in the formation of a new regional sports network and the related media rights agreement to air Dodgers games.
• Representing Guggenheim Baseball Management in its acquisition of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the then largest transaction ever for a professional sports franchise.
• Representing Rangers Baseball Express (the investment group led by Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan) in its acquisition of the Texas Rangers, a long and complex transaction that culminated in the sale of the club through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction.
• Representing the Ricketts family in its acquisition of a controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field and a related ownership interest in a regional sports network, all through a complex leveraged partnership structure, the then single largest transaction ever for a North American sports franchise.
• Representing the Milwaukee Brewers in the sale of the club to Mark Attanasio.
• Representing the seller of a significant minority interest in the Cincinnati Bengals.
• Representing San Diego Padres ownership in the team’s local telecast rights agreement and equity ownership in a regional sports network.
• Representing other teams, media companies, and video game/esports entities in television, radio, over- the-top (OTT)/streaming, and media rights deals, including the Texas Rangers, the Green Bay Packers, the Milwaukee Brewers, Hi-Rez Studios, and a major diversified media company.