The Oakland Athletics planned relocation to Las Vegas is giving ample work to law firms, including Katten Muchin Rosenman, Goodwin Procter, Greenberg Traurig, and Latham & Watkins.
Katten, known for its sports practice, is representing the A’s via sports law and facilities co-chair Adam Klein, real estate partner Benzion Westreich, and associate Paige Krause. Klein counseled the team’s ownership on its $180 million acquisition of the Major League Baseball team in 2005.
Goodwin real estate partners partners Benjamin Hittman and Erin Claywell, as well as tax of counsel Edward Glazer, are advising Gaming & Leisure Properties Inc., known as GLPI, which owns the land on which the A’s hope to build a new $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat retractable roof stadium.
The A’s announced May 15 an agreement with two companies, GLPI and Bally’s Corp., to build their new ballpark on the site of the Tropicana hotel and casino along the Las Vegas Strip. GLPI sold the Tropicana, one of the longest-standing casinos in Las Vegas, to Bally’s for $150 million in 2021 but continued to own the underlying land and collect rent from it.
Latham’s Sony Ben-Moshe, co-chair of the firm’s hospitality, gaming, and leisure industry group, is serving as outside counsel to Bally’s along with Greenberg Traurig real estate partners James Mace and Michael Hogue. Mace, a veteran Las Vegas dealmaker, co-heads the firm’s office in the city.
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