A family law attorney representing a professional's spouse asked us to co-counsel on the sports-and-entertainment pieces the family lawyer did not run: image rights, brand deals, deferred compensation, and a licensing entity structure that most divorce filings never touch. We ran the sports piece. The family lawyer stayed in her seat.
None of those pieces sat easily inside the family lawyer's standard workflow, and the spouse's own entitlement to them was going to turn on how each one was characterized.
The family lawyer wanted co-counsel who could handle the sports and entertainment side without pulling the divorce.
We took the sports and entertainment side and ran it in a defined lane. We characterized the licensing entity's membership interest, valued it on defensible comparables, and set up the distribution scenarios the family lawyer could plug into the settlement grid. We analyzed the deferred compensation stream against the underlying employment paper and identified the community and separate components on a defined timeline.
We valued the equity position in the sports-adjacent startup against a written cap table and recent-round documents, and built a settlement-side mechanic that gave the spouse a defined entitlement without forcing an immediate liquidity event.
We coordinated with the licensing agency on the personal-likeness portfolio and structured a post-divorce framework that let the professional's income keep flowing while the spouse's share was protected. The family lawyer closed the divorce. Our lane closed with hers.
"I ran the divorce. Brandon ran the sports piece. My client got a settlement built by both."
— Family Law Attorney, Co-Counseling
Family law attorneys handle real property, retirement accounts, and support calculations every day, and they are good at it. A licensing entity's membership interest, an equity stake in a startup with no public valuation, a deferred compensation stream governed by sports-specific employment paper, these do not fit the standard workflow, and forcing them into it produces a settlement built on guesses.
Co-counseling in a defined lane means the family lawyer keeps the case, keeps the client relationship, and keeps control of the overall settlement strategy, while the sports and entertainment pieces get valued by someone who actually knows how those specific assets behave.
We co-counsel on the sports and entertainment side of divorce and family law matters, working inside whatever lane the lead family attorney defines and handing every valuation and mechanic back into their settlement grid.
Most engagements are flat fee, quoted before the work begins — and most matters resolve without litigation. Start with a free consultation.