Finance & Law

Athlete marketing platform Opendorse has raised $20m (€19.07m) in a funding round towards name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities for more than 500,000 student-athletes.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) inquiry into the controversial re-election of Johan Eliasch as president of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) is expected to roll into 2023 following…

The German Football League (DFL), organising body of the top two divisions of the domestic game, has delayed talks over the potential sale of a stake in its media rights business to next year amid a lack…

New World TV, the Togo-based satellite broadcaster that holds free-to-air and pay-television rights to the 2022 Fifa World Cup in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa, has claimed it has suffered a series…

Arnim Whisler has confirmed plans to sell his majority stake in National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars amid the ongoing sexual abuse scandal which continues to rock the league

OL Groupe, the holding company of Olympique Lyonnais, has given American investor John Textor a deadline of this Wednesday, December 7, to complete his takeover of the Ligue 1 club

An amendment has been filed to the Melandri Law, the 2008 legislation which imposed the collective selling of media rights on professional sport in Italy, to extend the maximum duration of domestic broadcast…

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Adam Davis, managing director of North America for Two Circles. Fisher and Russo also discuss Merritt Paulson’s move to sell the National Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns, the National Basketball Association’s embrace of new sources of team investor capital, accelerated plans to expand the College Football Playoff, Major League Baseball’s sale of its BAMTech equity stake, the Boston Red Sox’s jersey patch sale, and the departure of Lenny Daniels from Warner Bros. Discovery.

A European Super League (ESL) would lead to a decline in domestic league revenues of up to 55 per cent and have a detrimental effect on leagues across the continent, according to a report from professional…

Arsenal has more than halved its losses for the 2021-22 season, with the English Premier League football club reporting both positive and negative impacts to its revenue streams

European football’s governing body Uefa has opened a formal investigation into Italian Serie A club Juventus for potential breaches of its licensing and Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

League expands its embrace of institutional money as franchise values soar

World Table Tennis, the commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation, is confident that a full quota of four ‘Grand Smash’ tournaments will be in place by 2024, when it will look to rol…

The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has opened an investigation into Juventus over alleged salary irregularities, while Spain's LaLiga has become the first international body to call for immediate sanctions…

ESPN parent completes series of transactions for streaming technology entity

Jeff Skoll, the Canadian billionaire businessman, has joined Monumental Sports & Entertainment as a minority investor.