Vice President/Senior Counsel, Legal - Sports

Responsibilities: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 rightsLiaise 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