Fordham Sports Law Forum 23rd Annual Symposium Friday, February 22, 2019 8:30 a.m. Check in 9:30 a.m – 3:30 p.m. Program Skadden Conference Center (Second Floor) This event is presented in conjunction with Weil, Gotshal & Manges and the Sports Lawyers Association. 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Check in and Coffee Lunch Sponsored by Weil 9:30-9:40 a.m. 1:30 - 2:20 p.m. Welcome Remarks Panel 3: Growth and Future of eSports Matthew Diller (1.0 Professional Practice CLE) Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham Law School David Bialek Co-Founder & CEO, ReKTGlobal 9:40 – 10:25 a.m. Jared Bartie Morning Keynote Speaker Sports Industry Co-Chair, O’Melveny & Myers Howie Roseman ’00 Executive Vice President of Football Operations, Alicia Jessop Philadelphia Eagles Assistant Professor, Sport Administration, Pepperdine University 10:25 – 10:40 a.m. Moderator: Chuck Baker, Sports Industry Co-Chair, Break O’Melveny & Myers 10:40 - 11:30 a.m. 2:20 – 2:30 p.m. Panel 1: Legalization of Sports Betting Break (1.0 Professional Practice CLE) Christian Genetski 2:30 – 3:20 p.m. Chief Legal Officer, FanDuel Group Afternoon Keynote Speaker Maureen Hanlon John Gerba President, Onexim Sports and Entertainment Associate Counsel, National Hockey League Players’ Association 3:20 – 3:30 p.m. Marc Edelman Closing Remarks Attorney, Law Office of Marc Edelman; Professor of Law at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College; Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School Moderator: Stephen Master, Chief Revenue Officer, SimpleBet & Strategic Advisor for the American Gaming Association’s Sports Betting Task Force 11:30 - 11:40 a.m. Break 11:40 am - 12:30 p.m. Panel 2: Team Counsel (1.0 Professional Practice CLE) Kari Cohen Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, BSE Global / Brooklyn Nets Hymie Elhai Senior Vice President, Business Affairs & General Counsel, New York Jets Rich Haddad Senior Vice President, Business Affairs & General Counsel, Palace Sports & Entertainment / Detroit Pistons Zach Klein Deputy General Counsel, New York Islanders Moderator: Mark Conrad, Associate Professor, Gabelli School of Business & Director of the Sports Business Program, Fordham University Chuck Baker Counsel of the United States Tennis Association (USTA); Sports Industry Co-Chair General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of the NBA O’Melveny & Myers Charlotte Bobcats; an executive in the National Basketball Association’s renowned Team Marketing and Business Charles Baker is Co-Chair of O’Melveny’s Sports Industry Operations group; Acting Chief Counsel of Productions at Group. Chuck’s corporate practice encompasses mergers and Black Entertainment Television; and General Counsel of Maxim acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital transactions, Magazine. with a core focus in the sports, media and consumer sectors. He represents domestic and international clients on a variety Baker has represented buyers and sellers of sports franchises in of high-profile matters, including professional sports team the National Football League, National Basketball Association, investments, stadium and arena transactions, prominent facility National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, Major League naming rights and sponsorship transactions, and complex Soccer and many of the European football leagues. Most media rights agreements. His clients have included the Portland recently, Baker represented David Tepper, founder and Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz, Brooklyn Nets, Detroit Pistons, Dallas president of global hedge fund Appaloosa Management, in his Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Under Armour, Legends, Pac-12 acquisition of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. Conference, USA Track & Field, USA Volleyball, Washington Convention and Sports Authority and City of Atlanta and Fulton Baker has been featured by dozens of national publications and County Recreation Authority. other media outlets as a thought leader in the fields of sports and entertainment law, and is also a frequent public speaker Jared has developed a robust practice in the burgeoning on those topics. Most recently he was profiled as a leading esports industry and advises on team investments, league “Dealmaker” in Variety’s 2018 Dealmakers Elite: New York, a entry negotiations, corporate sponsorships, player contract feature spotlighting the most important players in the fields of discussions, and arena development matters. His deals have law, finance, representation, and executive leadership. involved navigating entry into the top esports leagues, including Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch League and Riot’s North He has been recognized nationally for sports law in the last six America League of Legends Championship Series. Jared’s editions of Chambers USA:America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, esports clients have included Envy Gaming, Gen. G (previously which has described him as a “very strong practitioner” who is KSV esports International), FlyQuest, Washington Convention “well connected, incredibly bright and just able to get the deal and Sports Authority, and Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones. closed” with “tremendous experience and know-how in the sports space.” In 2017, Jared was named a Presidential Appointee to the Executive Committee of the USTA and currently serves on the He was also recognized by Law360 in 2015 and 2016 for his March of Dimes Sports Luncheon Committee. Jared earned his stellar M&A and sports law work, and by the Global M&A J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. Network for his work on the sale of the Atlanta Hawks NBA from American University. team, naming it the “2015 USA Deal of the Year” at its prestigious M&A Atlas Awards. In 2016, he was featured David Bialek in Sports Business Journal’s “Power Players: Sports Lawyers & Co-Founder & CEO Outside Counsel” 2016 list. ReKTGlobal Baker, who holds a JD from Cornell University, is a David Bialek serves as co-founder and CEO of ReKTGlobal. Distinguished Lecturer at NYU’s Tisch Institute for Sports With over 25 years of experience, he has handled sales and Management, Media, and Business. He is also a member of the marketing initiatives for some of the world’s largest sports and University of Miami School of Law’s Entertainment, Arts, and entertainment properties, including the French Open, National Sports Law board. Baker also served as a staff associate for Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, The Breeders’ former Senator Bill Bradley. Cup, numerous stadium and arena sponsorship programs, and high-profile concert tours. He is active at the board level with the March of Dimes and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and previously with USA Recently, Dave became enamored of the bourgeoning esports Triathlon. and broader gaming industries. A void of “best practices” and business processes in sales and services, led him to Jared Bartie the conclusion that he would spend the next 10 years of his Sports Industry Co-Chair professional life devoted to its growth. With the creation of O’Melveny & Myers ReKTGlobal, Dave and his partners have created multiple business segments, which service the various stakeholder of A nationally recognized sports attorney and Co-Chair the esports ecosystem. In January 2018, ReKT was named as of O’Melveny’s Sports Industry Group, Jared is named a the Agency of Record for State Farm, a top 30 North American “Dealmaker” by Variety, a “Power-Player” by SportsBusiness marketer. Journal, and “Sports Attorney of the Year” by the National Bar Association, and most recently one of the “Most Influential As a sports and entertainment marketing and media specialist, Black Lawyers in America” by Savoy Magazine. Dave has spearheaded the creation of multiple advertising platforms in the place-based, streaming media and sports Jared’s career uniquely encompasses both legal and business advertising space. Bialek is credited with building two professional sports and entertainment experience. Among his groundbreaking initiatives in collegiate sports. First, he led a various roles he has served as Chief Legal Officer and General sales team to create an advertising network on field goal nets in over 60 NCAA schools. “The Field Goal Net Program” remains in Barclays Center developer Forest City Ratner’s procurement Allstate’s tent-pole sports platform after 12 years. Second, he of the winning bid to renovate and operate Nassau Veterans invented the “Basket Profile” position on NCAA and NBA basket Memorial Coliseum by participating in negotiation sessions for stanchions, which is widely considered to be the most impactful the Lease Agreement with the County lawyers. signage position in all of sports. State Farm was the program’s initial and primary sponsor and remains as such today. For this Cohen was hired in June 2011 as Associate Counsel, was latest pursuit, Dave became the recipient of the prestigious promoted to Counsel for Legal & Business Affairs, and then Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award in April 2009. was promoted to Vice President and Assistant General Counsel before reaching her current title. Prior to BSE Global, Cohen Prior to RektGlobal, Dave served as Partner at The Legacy worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in its New Media, Agency (TLA) Sales and Founder and CEO of Skylark Entertainment, and Technology practice group. As an associate Marketing. Skylark merged with TLA Worldwide in September at HHR, she provided transactional support and counseling to 2014, creating a corporate sales division to complement TLA’s media and technology companies in connection with content existing talent marketing and representation businesses. and software licensing, syndication, and intellectual property issues. Dave previously served as Director and President of ANC Sports Marketing where he built the marketing group into a Cohen graduated with honors from The George Washington leader in team and venue media sales and marketing. While at University, where she was a member of the Dean’s List, with ANC, the business increased from $15MM in top line revenue degrees in Journalism and Political Science. She went on to to $65MM within a 7-year span. Along with creation of the attend law school at Benjamin N.