IMG Worldwide Acquisition Draws Mixed Reaction

There seems to be a common theme among those in the sports law industry who provided comment to Sports Litigation Alert about Silver Lake Partners and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC’s acquisition of IMG Worldwide earlier this month.   “Based on my 20 plus years of observation of such non-sensical industry mergers (see SFX) and the history of entertainers getting into the agent business (see P Diddy), this will not end well for the brand of IMG,” said one source. “All you