Rich Le Page has been named a Law360 “Rising Star” for Sports & Betting—one of three Sullivan & Cromwell partners selected in 2024 from more than 1,200 submissions. A partner in the Firm’s General Practice Group, Rich has spearheaded multiple important and high-value deals in the sports and betting field.
Rich recently represented Joseph Tsai and Clara Wu Tsai in the sale of a minority stake in the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty and Barclays Center to Julia Koch and her children. Rich was previously a key part of the team that advised the Tsai family in purchasing a 49 percent interest in the Brooklyn Nets in 2018 and in purchasing the remaining interests in the Brooklyn Nets and acquiring the Barclays Center the following year. “These deals and all their complexities really cemented my passion for working in this industry,” Rich told Law360.
Rich regularly represents Major League Baseball in a wide variety of matters, including its sale of its remaining interest in BAMTech to Disney as well as numerous other key ownership, governance, media and transactional matters. Rich also has extensive experience with major sports sponsorship transactions (e.g., AB InBev’s partnership with FIFA for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ and the FIFA World Cup 2026™ and UBS’s 20-year naming rights agreement for UBS Arena) and sports-anchored real estate development projects (e.g., the Atlanta Hawks investment in Centennial Yards and the San Francisco Giants/Tishman Speyer development of Mission Rock).
Rich said he enjoys the varied nature of the work in this multidisciplinary practice, which “keeps you on the edge of your seat for whatever might come next.”
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