Arent Fox LLP today announced noted sports attorney Maidie E. Oliveau, 55, has joined the firm as counsel in its Los Angeles office.
Ms. Oliveau has worked on a number of major sports-related transactions, negotiating and administering more than 200 deals totaling over $600 million, including:(i) naming rights agreement for AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park and Pacific Bell Park) in San Francisco; (ii) the Detroit Pistons’ telecast rights to Fox Sports Net Detroit, the local regional sports network; (iii) the Tennis Channel agreement with the French Tennis Federation for the rights to telecast the Roland-Garros Grand Slam tournament; (iv) AstraZeneca’s CRESTOR brand sponsorship of the PGA Tour; (v) Fox’s acquisition of the Los Angeles Dodgers; and (vi) Sugar Bowl's title sponsorship deal with Allstate (and previously with Nokia and USF&G).
Arent Fox’s Los Angeles office was launched on January 1, 2007, when Washington, DC-based Arent Fox and Los Angeles-based litigation boutique O’Brien Abeles LLP combined their firms.




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