Senior Counsel

Responsibilities

• Sponsorship Agreements:
  Lead the negotiation, structuring, and drafting of sponsorship agreements across various assets, including events, content, and partnerships. Ensure alignment with LIV Golf's commercial objectives while safeguarding legal interests.
• Sports Media Rights:
  Advise on all aspects of sports media rights, including the acquisition, licensing, and distribution of content across linear and digital platforms. Negotiate and draft media contracts that support LIV Golf's content strategy and expansion.
• Original Content Production & Distribution:
  Provide legal guidance on the production, acquisition, and distribution of original content. Oversee contracts related to content licensing, syndication, and distribution across traditional and emerging platforms.
• Risk Management & Legal Strategy:
  Identify and manage legal risks in sponsorship and media rights transactions, balancing business goals with legal considerations. Provide actionable legal advice to senior management to ensure business strategies are compliant with legal standards.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with the business development, marketing, finance, and media teams to integrate legal considerations into commercial decisions. Serve as a trusted advisor to internal teams in the development of new sponsorship opportunities and media rights strategies.
• Contract Drafting & Negotiation:
  Draft and negotiate various agreements related to sponsor ships, media rights, media production, marketing, content acquisition, distribution, and event-related partnerships. Ensure all contracts are structured in a way that minimizes risk while supporting LIV Golf's global expansion.
• Industry Trends & Best Practices:
  Stay ahead of trends and changes in the sports media, entertainment, and sponsorship industries. Advise internal stakeholders on emerging developments and innovative legal solutions that can drive LIV Golf's business forward.
• External Counsel Management:
  Manage external counsel on select matters, ensuring alignment with LIV Golf's strategic goals and maintaining high standards for quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

The LIV Golf League is the world’s only global golf league featuring 13 teams, a 14-tournament schedule, and many of the world’s best golfers. Launched in 2022, the League was designed to expand the sport on a global level and create new value within the golfing ecosystem while enhancing the game’s societal impact. A landmark investment by LIV Golf also launched The International Series, a set of 10 enhanced events sanctioned by the Asian Tour, with elevated prize funds in world-class destinations, offering a pathway for leading professional and amateur golfers from around the world into the LIV Golf League.

Only four years into operations and with tournaments across North and Latin Americas, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, LIV Golf remains committed to developing the sport at every level and exposing more people to the positive virtues of the game through its unique blend of intense competition and entertainment.

LIV Golf is owned and operated by LIV Golf Investments whose vision and mission are centered around making holistic and sustainable investments to enhance the global golf ecosystem and unlock the sport’s untapped worldwide potential.