Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs
Responsibilities: Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of program/content licenses, and other commercial agreements for NBC Sports Group and its sports properties, including NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Regional Networks and their respective websites and other digital platforms. Agreements may include various forms of program or content license agreements with leagues, conferences, national governing bodies, international federations, sports teams, colleges, and other sports content suppliers (including rights/license agreements, time buy agreements, barter agreements, etc.), sponsorship agreements, programming development agreements, syndication agreements, production agreements, radio simulcasts and other commercial agreements Counsel 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 rights Work on corporate and transactional matters as necessary, in conjunction with corporate development group Liaise with and advise TV and Digital distribution teams on rights and clearances associated with network and digital distribution matters Present analyses directly to executives and management