Joseph Leccese Email & Phone Number

Joe Leccese is the Chairman of Proskauer. In that capacity, he is responsible for leading the firm’s global operations across its 13 offices.Joe also is an extremely active practitioner and the co-head of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Law Group. He has a broad-based corporate practice with particular emphasis on the representation of professional sports leagues, teams and owners; college conferences; media and marketing companies; and private equity firms and financial institutions that provide capital to the broad array of transactions that occur in the sports industry. Joe is the only transactional lawyer in the nation rated “Band 1” in Sports by Chambers.Joe's sports experience includes numerous matters for the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, PAC-12 Conference, Big East Conference, ATP World Tour, WTA Tour, USGA and NASCAR, as well as for a number of teams, owners and media entities that he advises on a continuing basis. Joe regularly handles matters relating to the acquisition, financing, operation and equity funding of professional sports teams. He also has represented bidders for many other teams across a broad variety of sports, both in privately negotiated sales and in auctions, and has advised leagues and governing bodies on scores of M&A transactions over the past 25 years, including advising the NBA on the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers.Joe has handled a variety of joint ventures and other innovative sports transactions, including the formation of NBA China, the WNBA, the NBA Development League and Legends Hospitality, and the sale to Providence Equity of an interest in Soccer United Marketing, the media/marketing affiliate of MLS. Joe is a frequent speaker and lecturer on business and legal topics in sports and was named one of “The 50 Most Influential People in Sports Business” by the Sports Business Journal and one of “New York’s 50 Most Powerful People in Sports” by the Daily News.

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  Chairman And Co-Chair Of The Sports Law Practice

  Proskauer Rose Llp

  1986 - Present - Greater New York City Area