A retired professional athlete launching a youth training academy in Southern California, three coaching hires, a leased facility, and two liability questions his prior business plan had not answered. We built the company and closed the gaps.
The athlete had retired from professional competition and was opening a youth training academy using his personal name and reputation. He had a lease on a training facility, a verbal agreement with three coaches he planned to hire, a handful of interested families, and a website under construction.
What he did not have was a corporate form, a written coaching employment template, a parent agreement, a waiver, or a clear separation between the academy's liability and his personal assets.
His financial advisor had flagged the structural gap. A recent minor injury at a competing facility in the area had generated negative press. He needed the business set up correctly before the first session.
We formed a California limited liability company with clean governance, a dedicated EIN, and a separate business bank account. We drafted a coaching employment template with clear scope, compensation, termination procedures, and background-check requirements. We drafted a parent enrollment agreement with a California-enforceable waiver and release of liability, a code of conduct, a dispute-resolution clause, and a media-release provision.
We coordinated with an insurance broker on general liability, abuse-and-molestation, and participant-accident coverage tailored to youth sports facilities. We licensed the use of his personal mark from a separate trademark-holding entity to the academy LLC, preserving his personal IP if the academy ever changed hands. We reviewed the facility lease for a clean indemnification structure and an insurance-requirement clause. The first session opened on schedule, with the academy, the coaches, the parents, and the facility all under written agreement.
"I could teach the game. I could not build the business on my own. Brandon did."
— Academy Founder
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