Where next for European club football after ESL debacle?
Two months on from the attempted breakaway, Mark Oliver, chairman of Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates, the London-based strategic advisers to…
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Mark Oliver
Mark Oliver is the chairman and founder of Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates, leading the firm’s advice on media, entertainment and sports investments to both investors and target companies/organisations, covering over £20 billion of deals since 1995.
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Seven steps for leagues and federations when considering private equity investment
Leagues and federations are being approached by a number of parties promising to alleviate Covid-19 short-term induced cash flow problems,…
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Turning a crisis into an opportunity for much-needed reform
Over the last two months, against the background of the coronavirus pandemic, the world of live sport has gone through…
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Thinking of investing $500m in DAZN? This is what you have to believe to make that move
DAZN, the international over-the-top streaming subscription platform, is seeking $500m of investment to help fund its business plan. To consider…
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Premier League Plus TV may be the way to go for the EPL in the UK in 2022
The reduction in the most recent UK media rights payment to the EPL for the period 2019 to 2022 has…
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Global commercial revenues amount to $600 million a year, a third the size of those of rugby union, and less than a quarter the size of golf (another sport with significant participant equipment and apparel spending)
With the Fifa World Cup, Wimbledon and the British Open all complete, this week the world’s attention moved on to…
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To prosper over the next 25 years, rugby union needs more countries playing the 15-a-side game at the top level and challenging for trophies, and it needs to broaden its appeal in its core countries by age, region and social class
Rugby union has come a long way since it turned professional almost 25 years ago in 1995. It might have…