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A focus of Nick’s practice is the sports industry, where he has experience advising professional sports leagues, teams and their owners, as well as businesses active in professional, youth and amateur sports, on transactional and other matters, including mergers and acquisitions; stadium and team debt financings; equity financings; media, apparel, naming rights, sponsorship, licensing and other commercial agreements; internal investigations; and youth protection and safeguarding matters.

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Beyond his sports practice, Nick advises companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies on their transactions and other business matters, with a focus on middle market mergers and acquisitions and complex commercial transactions.&nbsp;He advises clients in multiple industries, including sports, technology, financial services, retail and consumer products, health care, manufacturing and staffing and other business services. Nick’s mergers and acquisitions experience includes leading a broad range of transactions, from large public and private company control acquisitions and divestitures to strategic investments, equity and growth financings and smaller bolt-on stock or asset acquisitions and asset divestitures.&nbsp;In addition, Nick regularly serves as an outside general counsel to such sponsors and their portfolio companies, providing and coordinating daily legal services on a variety of matters, including corporate governance, commercial contracts, incentive equity, intellectual property, labor and employment, employee benefits, data privacy and security, real estate and tax.

J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2011, 

B.A., Wake Forest University, 2007, 

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<li>The Best Lawyers in America® (2022 to 2024)</li>
<li>Ohio Super Lawyers &#8220;Rising Star&#8221; (2022 to 2024)</li>
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<li>A professional soccer club in connection with its acquisition, ownership and operation of a Major League Soccer (MLS) and MLS NEXT PRO teams, including with respect to its MLS expansion agreement and other league governance matters, ownership structure and equity financing, stadium debt financing, sponsorship agreements, including a jersey sponsorship agreement, stadium and training facility naming rights agreements, media rights agreements and other commercial agreements.</li>
<li>A leading path-to-college solutions-based digital network for high school and college student athletes, parents, coaches and administrators in a variety of matters including:
<ul>
<li>the acquisition of a Chicago-based sports analytics company that uses predictive analytics to optimize the recruiting process for college football programs.</li>
<li>the acquisition of a provider of digital tools and personalized support to help high school students organize, track and strengthen their college applications.</li>
<li>the disposition of certain assets related to a college recruiting SAAS product to a sports technology company.</li>
<li>a series of additional roll-up stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures in the youth athletics market.</li>
<li>sponsorship and other commercial agreements with youth sports clubs, associations and service providers.</li>
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<li>A premier youth sports experiences business in connection with long-term license and collaboration agreements with all of the major American professional sports leagues and numerous professional sports teams to operate league- and team-branded youth sports programs.</li>
<li>A premier youth sports experiences business in a variety of matters, including multiyear sponsorship agreements with national and international companies, supply agreements, lease agreements, youth protection and safeguarding matters and general commercial matters.</li>
<li>A premier youth sports experiences business in the acquisition of and disposition of various flag football leagues across the country.</li>
<li>A leading youth sports boarding school in various commercial agreements, including multiyear sponsorship agreements with national and international companies.</li>
<li>A youth sports technology and media platform in connection with programming and content distribution agreements with multiple professional sports leagues.</li>
<li>Individuals in connection with minority investments in major professional sports teams.</li>
<li>A professional athlete in connection with equity grants received in connection with sponsorship agreements.</li>
<li>Professional sports leagues, teams and lenders in connection with multiple league, team and stadium financings.</li>
<li>Professional sports leagues, teams and investors in multiple mergers and acquisitions, equity financings and commercial matters.</li>
</ul>
M&amp;A and Private Equity
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<li>A private equity fund and its portfolio company in the materials handling industry in connection with a growth investment from a national private equity sponsor and a specialty supply chain automation fund.</li>
<li>A healthcare-focused growth equity firm as the lead investor in a late state investment round and recapitalization of a medical device company.</li>
<li>A private company in a spin-off of a division to existing equity owners.</li>
<li>A private equity sponsor in the divesture of a portfolio company in the staffing industry to a publicly traded company.</li>
<li>A private equity sponsor and its portfolio company in the healthcare industry in a bolt-on acquisition of a pediatric clinical research organization and in the disposition of the portfolio company.</li>
<li>A private equity sponsor and its portfolio company in a bolt-on acquisition of a life insurance assignment business and disposition of the portfolio company.</li>
<li>A private equity sponsor in the acquisition of certain assets in the retail industry.</li>
<li>Outside general counsel to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in various industries providing and coordinating daily legal services on a range of matters, including corporate governance, commercial contracts, incentive equity, intellectual property, labor and employment, employee benefits, data privacy and security, real estate and tax matters.</li>
<li>The owners of an independent wealth and investment management firm in the sale of their business to a private equity backed national independent wealth management firm.</li>
<li>A publicly traded commercial and personal insurance company in its $1.6 billion merger with one of the nation’s largest publicly traded insurers.</li>
<li>A provider of products and services to businesses in the sale of its technology services provider business.</li>
<li>A large multinational biopharmaceutical company in its acquisition of a majority stake in a privately held health care services company.</li>
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Finance 
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<li>A packaging label provider in its acquisition financing consisting of a $650 million senior secured term loan facility, a $400 million senior secured multicurrency revolving loan facility and a $600 million offering of senior debt securities under Rule 144A and Regulation S to finance the acquisition of the labels division of a manufacturer of flexible packaging.</li>
<li>A publicly traded technology company in financing matters, including a multimillion-dollar receivables purchase facility.</li>
<li>A middle market chemicals company in its $18 million term and asset based revolving loan with a regional bank.</li>
<li>A publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company in its acquisition financing of a $1.2 billion senior secured term loan facility and a $150 million senior secured revolving credit facility.</li>
<li>A large publicly traded technology company in its $1.25 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility and $900 million accounts receivable securitization facility.</li>
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