Attorney and former NBA executive Jared Bartie has joined Herrick, Feinstein, bolstering the law firm’s sports practice.
Bartie, who most recently was with Arent Fox, will bring his mix of team and sports industry clients to Herrick.
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Bartie, recently of Arent Fox, represents team clients and investors looking to buy clubs.
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“It is a small industry in a sense. We know many of the players, and bringing Jared to Herrick really enhances some of the relationships we were in the fermentation stage [of developing],” said Irwin Kishner, chairman of Herrick’s executive committee.
Herrick’s clients include the New York Yankees, YES Network, the New York Racing Association, Top Rank and Legends.
Bartie has a wide array of team clients as well as investors looking at buying clubs, with D.C. United and USA Track & Field among the parties with which he’s worked. He also advised on the 2013 naming-rights transaction for the Portland Trail Blazers’ arena, with the venue becoming Moda Center.
Bartie began his career in 1993 at Proskauer Rose, one of the top firms in sports law. He left in 1995 to work as staff counsel for Black Entertainment Television. He moved from there to work with several other organizations as staff counsel, including the U.S. Tennis Association, before leaving law to join the NBA’s team marketing and business operations department in 2005. He later served for a year as general counsel and chief administrative officer for the Charlotte Bobcats before leaving the NBA in 2008 to work at WWE. He joined Arent Fox in 2011.
