NEW YORK/WASHINGTON— The Hollywood Reporter named Mike Hill, Andrew Nightingale, and Peter Zern to its Sports Power Lawyers list for the second consecutive year. This year’s honorees were selected based on client portfolios, groundbreaking cases, scope of deals, and reputation among their colleagues.
Mike is a commercial transactions lawyer in Covington’s New York office who advises sports leagues, conferences, and teams, as well as media and technology companies, on a broad array of complex commercial and corporate transactions. He has extensive experience with television and video licensing and distribution agreements across broadcast, cable, and streaming, with a particular focus on the sports media rights agreements that represent the single largest revenue source for sports organizations and help shape the competitive and economic landscape of the industry. His work sits at the intersection of sports, media, and emerging distribution technologies, counseling clients as live sports content continues to drive the value of broadcast, pay television, and streaming platforms. Mike has also been named to Variety’s Legal Impact and Dealmakers Impact Reports, recognized as one of Law360’s Sports & Betting MVPs and Media & Entertainment MVPs, and named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers.
Andrew is a corporate lawyer in Covington’s New York office who represents clients across the sports industry, including leagues, teams, and owners, in a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters. His practice spans team ownership transfers, private equity investments and related transactions, joint ventures, and league governance, positioning him at the center of the ownership and investment activity reshaping professional sports. He regularly advises institutional investors, strategic partners, and sports franchises navigating the growing intersection of private capital and sports property ownership. Andrew has also been recognized as one of Law360’s Sports & Betting MVPs and Rising Stars.
Peter is co-chair of Covington’s Sports practice and one of the country’s preeminent sports lawyers, based in the firm’s Washington office. He advises a wide range of clients on sports-related transactions, including some of the largest and most innovative deals in the industry, and has done work for all of the major U.S. leagues, numerous individual teams and owners, and other governing bodies, lenders, investors, sponsors, and strategic partners. Widely regarded as a leading dealmaker in the sports industry, Peter counsels clients across mergers and acquisitions, franchise sales, private equity investments, league governance, and other complex commercial transactions that define the modern business of sports. Peter has also been recognized as one of Law360’s Sports & Betting MVPs and the Sports Business Journal’s Outside Counsel Power Players, and he is ranked by Chambers and Partners in Band 1 for Sports Law nationwide.
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