Couchmans Acts For Livesteam In IMG Partnership

Sports law practice Couchmans has acted for Livestream in the negotiation of its strategic partnership with IMG Worldwide to broadcast and distribute live events around the world.

The partnership with IMG marks the beginning of Livestream’s commercial expansion outside of its home US market and into the sports industry. Livestream is headquartered in New York with satellite offices in Los Angeles, Ukraine and India and the securing of its partnership with IMG coincides with the opening of Livestream’s London office as the headquarters of its EMEA operations and sales division.

Andrew Price, Partner, Couchmans said, “We were delighted to have been instructed by Livestream on this complex and interesting project. Our Sports Media Division includes many years experience and expertise in all areas and aspects of sports content production, protection and exploitation. We specialise in media production services as well as media rights exploitation and this was another example of our involvement with the latest developments in production services, alongside recent work in digital advertising replacement technology, 3D production as well as more traditional production arrangements.

Mark Kornfilt, Livestream’s Co-Founder and General Manager, EMEA said “As experts in sports media, Couchmans was the best legal partner available to facilitate a deal that marks rapid growth and international expansion for Livestream.”