The Deutsche Fußball-Liga (DFL) has instructed Kirch subsidiary Sirius to invite tenders on the football league rights. The media entrepreneur Leo Kirch will market the national media rights in the football league from 2009 to 2015 and has guaranteed the clubs and public limited companies revenue of at least three billion euro.
The DFL will establish a foreign company to market the international rights. Between 2009 and 2015 the DFL expects proceeds of around 460 million euro from business abroad. A joint venture between Sirius and DFL, in which Sirius holds a 51% majority, will be responsible for producing the live pay-TV transmissions. The DFL was advised in the negotiations and drafting of the agreement by Munich partner Dr Thomas Summerer as lead partner. Starting in 2001 he developed the DFL legal department as chief lawyer until he changed to CMS Hasche Sigle as a partner in spring 2007.
Adviser to DFL:
CMS Hasche Sigle
Dr Thomas Summerer
Dr Harald Kahlenberg
Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:
Dr Thomas Summerer
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 / 2 38 07 - 244
E-mail: Thomas.Summerer@cms-hs.com
About CMS Hasche Sigle
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 500 lawyers. It covers the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international companies from a wide spectrum of industry. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and Shanghai.
CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of partners see www.cms-hs.com
CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading independent European law firms. With over 595 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 4,200 support staff we advise our clients at commercial locations in 48 business centres in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.
In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 58 offices in 25 countries around the world.
For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see http://www.cmslegal.com.
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