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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Mergers and Inquisitions

This partially explains why sports investment banking has become a hot field, with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs launching their own sports coverage groups. For a long time, sports teams and franchises were not worth that much, so banks rarely put their “A-Teams” on these deals. What is Sports Investment Banking?

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Cooley’s 2023 Tech M&A Year in Review: An AI-Generated Glass Half Full

Cooley M&A

However, by Q4 2023, banks largely had cleared acquisition debt taken on in 2021 (such as Citrix and Twitter) from their balance sheets and were assertively looking to reenter the acquisition finance fray. Still, average leverage levels in sponsor buyouts declined from 7.1x in 2022 to 5.9x

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