COVID-19: a checklist of key legal and business considerations
As the legal, regulatory, and commercial implications of COVID-19 continue to evolve, our team has created a checklist of the complex considerations that organisations should have at the top of mind during this difficult time. The checklist is prepared with US companies in mind, but the points should assist sports organisations around the world too.
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Jeremy D. Spector
Partner, Washington
Jeremy Spector’s practice involves tax planning, IRS controversy work, and the structuring of corporate transactions, with particular emphasis on advising professional sports leagues and teams and on representing large taxpayers through the IRS audit, Fast Track, and Appeals processes.
Mr. Spector has been ranked as a leading tax lawyer in the Legal 500 US for his “superb legal advice and practical business guidance," by Chambers USA, which has noted his practice’s “dominant presence in the sports industry,” in Who’s Who Legal: Sports & Entertainment, and as a Law360 MVP. He is co-chair of the firm’s sports practice and a vice-chair of its tax group.
Representative clients in the sports world include the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the UFC, Fenway Sports Group, the United States Olympic Committee, and dozens of professional sports clubs.
Mr. Spector has been ranked as a leading tax lawyer in the Legal 500 US for his “superb legal advice and practical business guidance," by Chambers USA, which has noted his practice’s “dominant presence in the sports industry,” in Who’s Who Legal: Sports & Entertainment, and as a Law360 MVP. He is co-chair of the firm’s sports practice and a vice-chair of its tax group.
Representative clients in the sports world include the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the UFC, Fenway Sports Group, the United States Olympic Committee, and dozens of professional sports clubs.
Peter Zern
Partner, Washington
Peter Zern’s practice focuses on the sports industry where he represents clients in a wide range of matters including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings and media, sponsorship, naming rights, apparel and other commercial matters. Mr. Zern also has extensive experience in negotiating and structuring mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financings outside of the sports industry.
