Sports MVP: Covington & Burling's Derek Ludwin

Sports MVP: Covington & Burling's Derek Ludwin

December 21, 2016, Law360

Law360 selected Derek Ludwin as a 2016 Sports MVP and profiled his work over the past year, including his defense of the U.S. Olympic Committee against an antitrust challenge to its longtime ban on on-field advertising brought by Olympic runner Nick Symmonds through his company, Run Gum. “This is an organization that a lot of us grew up following. It’s the organization that puts together Team USA and that’s important for all of us,” Ludwin says. “This was a fundamental challenge to the USOC’s operations, to their ability to put together Team USA and it was a privilege — not a word I use lightly — to represent them.”