Mr Jason Krochak > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Jason Krochak
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Jason Krochak is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of the Sports Law Group. He has a broad-based corporate practice with a particular focus on clients in the sports industry.
Jason represents sports leagues and teams, private equity firms, financial institutions, gaming companies and corporate sponsors in a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including acquisitions, joint ventures, league expansions, financings, governance, naming rights agreements, licensing agreements and other commercial transactions.
Jason’s experience includes representing the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, Soccer United Marketing, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big East Conference, the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour, as well as a number of professional sports teams and their owners, in their significant transactional and governance matters. Jason also has advised on numerous market-shaping sports betting deals, including FanDuel’s first-of-its-kind media and sports wagering partnership in Canada with Bell Media and the Washington Nationals’ exclusive partnership with BetMGM.
Jason maintains an active pro bono practice and serves on the Advisory Board of Legal Outreach, an organization that prepares urban youth from underserved communities in New York City to compete at high academic levels. In partnership with Legal Outreach, he created the “Sports, Business and Law” clinic, an annual program where eighth-grade students participate in a mock NBA Expansion Workshop at Proskauer’s New York office.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Sport
Proskauer Rose LLP has a strong track record in sports law matters and is known for providing sector specific advice and working on high profile corporate and commercial matters in sport. Heading up the team is transactions expert Joseph Leccese
, who is co-chair of the firm’s renowned sports group, and recently represented the sellers and related entities in the $4.65bn sale of the Denver Broncos to the Walton-Penner family. Elsewhere, fellow practice head Bradley Ruskin is a go-to practitioner for litigious issues and recently represents the MLS in various matters. An area of recent growth for the firm, in line with the wider market, is sports betting work, and Jason Krochak is a standout name in this area. Jon H Oram is a key name to note when it comes to advising private equity firms on their first ventures into sports sector investment. All named practitioners are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending