Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of rights acquisition agreements and other commercial agreements for Versant’s sports division, including Golf Channel, USA Network and their respective websites and digital platforms.Agreements may include various forms of rights agreements with leagues, conferences, national governing bodies, international federations, sports teams, colleges, and other sports content suppliers (including content/program agreements, time buy agreements, barter agreements, etc.), sponsorship agreements, programming development agreements, syndication agreements and other commercial agreementsCounsel clients on contractual interpretation, advertising and promotional rights, production obligations, intellectual property usage, clearance issues and pre-litigation dispute resolution associated with sports and programming rightsAdvise on advertising sales and marketing rights and obligations flowing from sports and programming rights agreementsDraft, review and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements including production service agreements, vendor contracts, drone and aviation agreements and operational agreements (including engineering, equipment and logistics)Collaborate with business on the development, licensing and production of original programming and Versant-owned eventsLiaise with other Versant attorneys on sports talent agreementsLiaise with and advise TV and Digital distribution teams on rights and clearances associated with linear and digital distribution mattersPresent analyses directly to executives and management
