Shearman & Sterling has advised long-time client New England Sports Ventures on its successful acquisition of Liverpool Football Club.

New England Sports Ventures owns a range of companies, including US baseball team the Boston Red Sox as well as Fenway Sports Group and Roush Fenway Racing. Shearman & Sterling advised New England Sports Ventures when it bought Roush Racing, a NASCAR motor racing team, in 2007. The firm also acted for John W. Henry and New England Sports Ventures when they bought the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park and New England Sports Network back in 2002.

The Shearman & Sterling team of lawyers representing New England Sports Ventures is based in the firm’s London and New York offices. Led by M&A partners Creighton Condon and Laurence Levy, the team also includes litigation partners Jo Rickard and Alan Goudiss; finance partners Clifford Atkins and Gregory Tan; tax partners Iain Scoon and Michael Shulman, and counsel Simon Letherman; executive compensation & employee benefits counsel Sam Whitaker; and associates David Connolly, Assaad Nasr, Sean Skiffington, Richard Porter, Lucy Keeble, Shane Burke, James Leslie, Marsili Hale, Gaurav Chaudhari and Jordan Altman.