Sheppard Mullin has announced that partners David Sunkin and Brian Anderson have been named co-leaders of the firm’s Sports Industry Team. The Team includes more than 50 attorneys worldwide providing full-service legal counsel to owners, investors, teams, athletes, leagues, governing bodies, facility operators, rights holders, advertising companies, sponsors, sports technology businesses and others involved in sports-related transactions and disputes. Anderson, a technology and commercial transactions partner based in San Francisco who also leads the firm’s advertising practice, recently represented investors in their successful $53 million bid for an expansion franchise for the National Women’s Soccer League in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sunkin, a corporate partner based in Los Angeles, has represented a myriad of sports clients including owners of major league sports franchises in sales of majority and minority interests, and clients and venues involved in major media and sports-related events including, college football, The Rose Bowl Game and College Football Playoff Games, the 2028 Olympic Games to be held in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Marathon.
Sunkin, Anderson Chosen to Lead Sheppard Mullin’s Sports Industry Group
