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Provided by Christine G Lazatin
Christine Lazatin is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer’s Sports Group.
Christine regularly represents professional sports teams, leagues, owners, financial institutions and private capital firms in a variety of transactional matters, with a particular emphasis on acquisition and stadium financings, working capital facilities, and league-wide and league-level credit facilities. Over the years, she has advised major sports leagues (including the the NBA, NHL and MLS), as well as a number of NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB teams, in significant multi-billion dollar financing transactions, and she is known as one of the nation’s leading sports finance attorneys.
In addition to her finance work, Christine has advised on numerous expansion and ownership transactions for the NHL, NBA and MLS. She played a leading role in launching several emerging sports leagues, including MLS NEXT Pro, Major League Table Tennis, the Professional Women’s Hockey League and League One Volleyball, and she continues to represent such leagues on ongoing governance matters.
Christine is a vice chair of the Firm’s Hiring Committee and a partner liason to the Proskauer Women’s Alliance.
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Christine Lazatin is experienced in representing the NBA and NHL, adeptly advising on corporate transactions within the sports industry. She demonstrates notable strengths in managing financings for teams, leagues and institutional investors.