Jason Krochak > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Proskauer Rose LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-8299
NEW YORK
United States
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 maintains a broad-based corporate practice, with a particular focus on advising clients in the sports and gaming industries.
Jason represents sports leagues, teams and owners, college conferences, private investment funds, financial institutions, gaming companies and corporate sponsors in a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions, joint ventures, league expansions, financings and governance matters. He also advises on naming rights, sponsorship, media, licensing and various other commercial agreements.
Jason’s experience includes representing the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, the National Football League, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big East Conference, the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour, as well as numerous professional sports teams and their owners, in significant transactional and governance matters. His experience includes representing MLS in its arrangements with Lionel Messi and various expansion transactions, advising the Patrick D. Bowlen Trust in the record-breaking $4.65 billion sale of the Denver Broncos, and counseling Bruin Capital in the acquisition of Full Swing Simulators. He has also advised on several market-shaping sports betting deals, including FanDuel’s naming rights and media partnership with Diamond Sports Group and Simplebet’s sale to DraftKings.
Jason has 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 in which eighth-grade students participate in a mock NBA Expansion Workshop held at Proskauer’s New York office.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Sport
Displaying a strength in labor and employment matters in the sports industry, Proskauer Rose LLP‘s notable areas of strength include representing sports leagues and associations such as the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball in employment matters such as discrimination claims and collective bargaining claims. Elsewhere the group stands out for high profile work for the NFL on sports rights deals, as well as assisting with the launch of new professional sports leagues, a strength of Wayne Katz. Joseph Leccese
and Bradley Ruskin head up the team, the former of whom counts professional sports leagues, private equity firms, and media and marketing companies as key clients, while the latter is key for litigious matters including high-stakes contract negotiations and federal antitrust claims. Jason Krochak has been instrumental in growing the firm’s sports betting practice, a growing area of work for the group and a growing part of the sports industry more widely. All lawyers mentioned are located in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Commercial lending
- 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
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- 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 (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)