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Mergers & Acquisitions

Jul. 12, 2016

Milbank advises UFC parent company in fighting franchise's $4B sale.

Mixed martial arts mega-franchise Ultimate Fighting Championship agreed to a $4 billion sale to sports entertainment company WME-IMG with counsel from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, longtime legal advisor to UFC's parent company Zuffa LLC.

By Banks Albach
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Mixed martial arts mega-franchise Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, agreed to a $4 billion sale to sports entertainment company WME-IMG with counsel from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, longtime legal advisor to UFC's parent company Zuffa LLC.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP advised WME-IMG.

The deal, announced Monday, was bolstered by inves...

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