Finance & Law

Manchester City’s Jérémy Doku and three French players have won another battle for control of image rights in France – this time in a dispute with the country’s players union and the Panini sticker company.

Pressure continues to mount on controversial multi-club ownership group 777 Partners, after the US investment fund temporarily lost control of Brazil's Vasco da Gama and Belgium's Standard Liège.

A 78-per-cent jump in Sportradar’s Q1 sports rights costs on the back of its new ATP agreement and first season of an NBA extension contributed to a narrow net loss but the company claims to be already f…

Ahead of today's meeting between Diamond Sports Group and its bankruptcy judge, Major League Baseball and its clubs have expressed their disappointment with Diamond's failure to secure a distribution deal…

Sixteen months on from the collapse of its high-profile Davis Cup deal, Kosmos has announced a €60m funding round for what now represents its main business.

Paris 2024 is confident ongoing talks with brands across the country will result in sponsorship revenue for this summer’s Olympic Games exceeding the already revised upwards target of €1.24bn ($1.34bn).

Canadian investment group Kilmer Sports Ventures has entered into negotiations with the shareholders of AS Saint-Étienne with a view to acquiring the French Ligue 2 club in its first investment in football.

The Big3 has announced its first sale of home-team rights with the $10m (€9.3m) purchase of a Los Angeles franchise by a consortium led by DCB Sports, as the basketball league prepares to shift to a city-based competition in 2025.

Basketball Australia is stepping up plans to privatise the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), with advanced talks having been held with a number of the country's richest business executives.

Speaking on the back of Warner Bros. Discovery's latest financial results, CEO David Zaslav claims to be "hopeful" that it will retain NBA domestic rights in a deal "that makes sense for both sides" with the broadcaster holding a matching right clause.

Endeavor's Owned Sports Properties was the entertainment giant's sole business unit to show revenue growth in the first quarter of 2024, aided by last year's acquisition of WWE, as the wider group swung to a net loss.

Formula 1's revenue broke the $500m (€465.7m) barrier for the first quarter of this year, with the addition of an extra race in the period and strong performances across all three main revenue drivers paying dividends.

NBCUniversal has agreed a cut-price deal with World Wrestling Entertainment to continue showing 'Monday Night Raw' for the remainder of 2024, until the bumper 10-year global contract with Netflix kicks…

Disney is confident of retaining its National Basketball Association rights ahead of a new deal that would begin in 2025, chief executive Bob Iger has declared

Genius Sports’ first-quarter net loss remaining flat at $25.5m comes as improved revenue generation at its betting and media divisions underpinned the financial performance.

Matchroom Sport, the UK-based event promotions company and agency, has ended its search for investment by striking an equity agreement with Pitch International which includes "collaboration" with the agency on international media rights and sponsorship sales.