Progressive Artists Leisure has employed veteran sports activities and leisure lawyer Brad Small to assist the company make a push into the sports activities illustration enterprise.
Small joins from Fox Rothschild LLP, the place he labored for 4 years as a accomplice within the agency’s Leisure & Sports activities Legislation Division. In his new function, he’ll oversee sports activities leisure performers and creators for Progressive, bringing with him shoppers together with Drew McIntrye, Jack Perry, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Goldberg, Kanako Urai (aka Asuka) and Dallas Web page, amongst others.
“Brad’s twenty years of expertise negotiating and navigating strategic and landscape-shifting offers for his shoppers, have set the mannequin for the intersection of sports activities and leisure, which uniquely poises him for fulfillment in our fashionable dealmaking panorama,” stated Progressive’s CEO and Founder, Scott Harris. “His tenacious strategy to dealmaking and forward-thinking imaginative and prescient are important belongings which can serve us properly transferring ahead within the sports activities area, and we’re excited to welcome him to the Progressive staff.”
Stated Small, “Because the media enterprise evolves, the sports activities trade and notably skilled wrestling have skilled a unprecedented resurgence in demand and recognition. I’m thrilled to affix the distinctive staff at Progressive at this crucial level within the company’s continued progress and to deliver sports activities and leisure along with a laser concentrate on increasing enterprise alternatives for present and future shoppers.”
Over the course of his profession, Small has labored on such initiatives as Marco Polo, Mob Wives, Venture Runway and Scream. Different notable shoppers embrace Goodfellas scribe Nick Pileggi, Joe Unique (of Tiger King fame) {and professional} wrestlers Chris Jericho and Jack Perry, to call only a few. Previous to becoming a member of Fox Rothschild, he was a accomplice at Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman LLP. He earned his J.D. from the College of California, Los Angeles, College of Legislation and his B.A. from Brown College.
