Doing their part to launch a surefire local rivalry for Major League Soccer's New Jersey–based New York Red Bulls, Akin Gump, DLA Piper, Herrick Feinstein, and Paul Hastings all landed roles on the $100 million deal announced this week to create the New York City Football Club. The new team, a joint venture between Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and the English Premier League's Manchester City F.C., could ultimately move into a $340 million stadium that MLS and its lawyers from Fried Frank and Proskauer Rose hope to see completed by 2016.
May 22, 2013 at 07:26 AM
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UPDATE: 5/23/2013, 10:55 a.m. EDT. The names of the lawyers from DLA Piper advising Manchester City have been added to the 15th paragraph of this story.
It took a Middle Eastern sheikh, a storied baseball franchise, and six Am Law 200 firms to help bring professional soccer back to Manhattan.
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