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We advise investors and ownership groups on the acquisition of professional sports franchises and related companies across sports, media, and entertainment. Our buy-side M&A services include sourcing opportunities, conducting in-depth market and financial due diligence, providing independent valuations, and structuring acquisition financing. With a proven track record in global sports investments, we guide clients through every stage of the acquisition process to secure long-term strategic value.
We specialize in advising team owners, leagues, and operators on the sale of professional sports franchises and sports-related businesses. Our sell-side M&A advisory maximizes both financial outcomes and strategic deal terms by leveraging our global network of investors, private equity firms, and industry leaders. We position assets to achieve premium valuations while ensuring transactions align with long-term goals.
We raise growth capital—equity and debt—for sports, media, and entertainment companies with strong revenue potential and defensible market positions. Our capital raising services connect management teams, founders, and financial sponsors with institutional investors, family offices, and strategic partners. Whether for expansion, acquisition, or recapitalization, we deliver customized fundraising strategies that drive sustainable growth.
We advise on minority and limited partnership transactions involving professional sports franchises and sports-related assets worldwide. Our team understands the unique complexity of acquiring or divesting non-controlling stakes, and we provide strategic guidance on valuation, governance, and deal structuring. By connecting buyers and sellers with qualified global investors, we ensure efficient and successful transactions.
We provide end-to-end advisory for stadium, arena, and sports venue development projects. Our expertise includes structuring financing solutions, securing capital from diverse sources, and guiding clients through negotiations with municipalities, universities, leagues, and private partners. With a global track record in sports infrastructure financing, we deliver innovative strategies that balance financial efficiency with long-term growth.
We advise universities, athletics departments, and conferences on the structuring and financing of athletics investments. Utilizing our deep experience and proven track record of success in professional sports, we objectively advise on financial structures and solutions to achieve optimal financial and strategic outcomes for all sports programs. We leverage an extensive network of current and former leaders in college athletics, private sector industry leaders, high net worth individuals, and institutional equity firms to ensure complex solutions are actionable.
We offer bespoke, fully independent appraisal services to value interests in sports-related assets, including professional teams, related infrastructure like stadiums and arenas, and operating companies across the broader sports, technology, media and entertainment landscape. Use cases for valuation appraisals can vary situationally, such as tax or estate planning, marking investments to market, lender requirements or independent third-party verification of underlying asset value.
We perform a comprehensive diligence assessment of a business’s core financial drivers, capitalization, governance structure and underlying market dynamics, applying the most relevant valuation methodologies for sports assets to determine an estimated fair market value. Our proprietary knowledge of the sports industry formed over decades of advising on M&A and financing transactions, allows us to meet client objectives in accurately valuing assets that are uniquely esoteric. ICS has completed valuation appraisals for assets in the following leagues and categories:
Last Updated: Jan 2024
Inner Circle Sports LLC (ICS) (“we”, “us”, “our”) respect and value your privacy and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information from and about you. As used throughout this policy, the term “ICS” refers to Inner Circle Sports, LLC. This Privacy Policy Notice (“Policy”) describes our practices in connection with information collected through our websites, mobile applications, third party sites, external links provided for your convenience and other financial services or products (“Services”). This notice also describes the measures we have taken to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and security of personal data regarding our clients.
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when taking certain actions, such as when you use our services, interact with our affiliated staff, sign up for newsletters, or otherwise communicate with us. This includes information collected through our services and automatically from devices you use to connect to our services. Personal information collected is described as, but not limited to:
• Contact information & Identifying information: first name, last name, telephone number, email address, residential address, business address, social security number, etc.
• Role/position/title and area of responsibility, Tax ID number, KYC and/or AML documentation.
• Financial information collected but not limited to: source of wealth, investment experience, objectives, risk tolerance and in certain jurisdictions, representations required under applicable law or regulation concerning your financial resources.
• Certain identifying information (e.g. passport, identification, financials, etc.) as required by laws and regulations addressing money laundering and related matters.
• Other information requested by ICS
ICS may utilize your personal information to administer, operate, facilitate, and manage your relationship and/or involvement with ICS. We limit access to your personal information to only those on a need-to-know basis. Our service providers are held to stringent standards of privacy. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the information against loss, misuse, damage or modification and unauthorized access or disclosure.
Inner Circle Sports LLC may use contact information to communicate important updates, promotions, and other relevant information.
ICS will NOT sell your personal information. ICS may disclose information with trusted partners and service providers for specific purposes, such as transaction processing, to fulfill your instructions, to protect our rights and interests and those of our business partners, or pursuant to your express consent. Under limited circumstances, your personal information may be disclosed to third parties as permitted by, or to comply with, applicable laws and regulations, for instance, when responding to a subpoena or similar legal process, to protect against fraud, and to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or regulatory authorities.
Third party disclosures may include sharing such information with non-affiliated companies that perform support services that may facilitate your transactions with ICS, including those that provide investment banking execution, legal, or accounting advice to ICS. Non-affiliated companies that assist ICS in providing services to you are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent they receive it, and to use your personal information only while providing such services and only for the purposes that ICS dictates.
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ICS utilizes select transactions on our “Experience” page to showcase previous deals. We do not own the rights to these images, nor do we claim the rights to the imagery.
ICS reserves the right to modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when the revised Policy is posted. This Privacy Policy is in effect from January 1, 2024.
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If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the use, collection, disclosure and/or processing of your personal data, please contact us at:
Inner Circle Sports LLC
6501 Congress Avenue
Boca Raton, FL 33496
T: +1(917)-699-4620
E: info@innercirclesports.com
