Following recent rule changes across three of the major North American professional sports leagues, rising valuations and overall strength of the asset class, private equity firms are jumping at the opportunity to hold ownership stakes in everyone’s favorite sports team. While there are only a limited pool of teams and barriers to entry are high, dealmakers are seeing true value within the assets, as reported in the latest issue of Mergers & Acquisitions. Here is a look at what we are seeing in the market.

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