You focus on winning; we’ll make sure the legal team is on-point
The specialized team of hospitality, entertainment, and sports attorneys at Shumaker understand these unique worlds—and the legal challenges that go along with each. Our ability to provide knowledgeable, effective, and sensitive counsel has won us many long-term clients across leisure/hospitality businesses, athletes and coaches, entertainers/artists, and virtually all of the related enterprises that comprise this industry.
We regularly counsel sports industry clients on issues involving contract and commercial law, immigration, civil litigation, labor and employment, deferred compensation and employee benefit plans, business organizations and transactions, real estate, federal and state taxation, public law, estate planning and probate, intellectual property, and charitable tax-exempt organizations. In addition, we advise education clients on Title IX issues.
We also have extensive experience representing public and private owners of arena, ballpark, and theatre venues in matters such as taxable and tax-exempt financing, team leases of facilities, structuring of public-private joint ventures, federal and state tax issues, naming rights agreements, and public bidding issues.
Representative clients:
- Food and Beverage—All types of restaurants (fine dining to fast-food franchises) catering businesses, bars, and third-party service providers to hotels, casinos, arenas, and theme parks
- Hospitality— Hotels, bed and breakfast enterprises, resorts, campgrounds, and short-term accommodations
- Leisure— Museums, botanical gardens, zoos, and centers for performing arts
- Sports Figures— Including athletic directors at NCAA member institutions, professional franchise coaches, professional and collegiate athletes, and other sports figures and entertainers
