Sports and Entertainment
Since our founding over 70 years ago, Gould & Ratner has represented some of Chicago's most prominent families, sports figures, actors, artists, and musicians. Our sports and entertainment practice focuses on providing legal counsel to individuals and their families in matters pertaining to their personal, business, and tax interests, including tax and estate planning. Our clients include professional athletes and coaches in the NFL and NBA, as well as coaches of collegiate sports teams. In the entertainment area, our clients are involved in television, movies, radio, and music and comedy recording.
Our services involve:
- Advising clients regarding the formation, acquisition or sale of business entities.
- Documenting investments in private equity transactions.
- Advising clients on intellectual property protection and pursuing intellectual property infringements.
- Advising clients on tax issues relating to their personal, real estate, and other business and family holdings.
- Preparing estate planning strategies and documents.
- Establishing charitable organizations and foundations with guidance on governance matters.
Our firm has one of the legal profession's largest practices devoted to entrepreneurial and family business enterprises, which makes Gould & Ratner an excellent choice for high-profile individuals desiring legal counsel and addressing their needs from a 360 degree perspective – from corporate, estate and charitable planning, and tax and financial services, to litigation and real estate. Gould & Ratner lawyers are "cross-trained" in different legal disciplines which enables them to offer more options and solutions for our clients' situations.