"FuboTV and Disney Finalize Merger to Combine Fubo with Hulu + Live TV"

Latham & Watkins LLP represented FuboTV Inc. in the transaction, while The Walt Disney Company was advised by its in-house legal team. FuboTV Inc. (NYSE: FUBO) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) have successfully closed the previously announced transaction to combine Fubo’s business with Disney’s Hulu + Live TV business. The merger creates a combined company that offers consumers a wide range of sports programming, including over 55,000 live sporting events, alongside entertainment-focused offerings from Fubo and Hulu + Live TV. The legal team from Latham & Watkins LLP advising Fubo included a corporate deal team led by New York partner Andrew Elken, Chicago partner Owen Alexander, and New York/Orange County partner Charles Ruck, with associates Kyle Adams, Maya Rahwanji, Taylor Wood, Joey Yu, and Sean Kim, and assistance from Leila Lukaszewicz and Jayla Goodloe. Additional advice was provided on public company and board representation matters by New York partner Jenna Cooper, with associates Cat Cohen and Ashley Lee; on capital markets matters by New York partner Greg Rodgers and counsel Ryan deFord, with associates Ryan Gold, Matt DeSilva, Madison Venezia, and Sam Berry; on tax matters by Houston partners Jared Grimley and Christine Mainguy, with associate Dominick Constantino; on entertainment, sports, and media matters by Los Angeles partner Adam Sullins and counsel Paul Iannicelli, with associates Aiyanna Sanders and Alex Sibirzeff; on benefits matters by San Diego partner Holly Bauer and Washington, D.C. counsel Laura Szarmach, with associate Bryce Groce; on labor and employment matters by Chicago partner Nineveh Alkhas, with associate Elizabeth Duncan; on antitrust matters by Washington, D.C. partners Amanda Reeves and Patrick English, and counsel Francesca Pisano, San Francisco partner Kelly Fayne, and New York partner Lawrence Buterman; on ex-US regulatory matters by Brussels partner Héctor Armengod, Hamburg partner Jana Dammann de Chapto, and Paris partner Adrien Giraud, and counsel Tomas Nilsson, with associate Alicja Klosok; on anticorruption and sanctions matters by Washington, D.C. partner Erin Brown Jones, with associate Clinton Summers; on intellectual property matters by Washington, D.C. partner Morgan Brubaker, with associates Ryan Clore and Kellye Quirk; on data privacy matters by Houston partner Robert Brown, with associates Sarah Zahedi and Zac Alpert; on litigation matters by Washington, D.C. partner Andy Clubok, New York partner Blair Connelly, San Diego partner Colleen Smith, and New York counsel Thomas Giblin, with associate Caitlyn Brock; on real estate matters by New York counsel Shira Bressler; on CFIUS and export controls matters by Washington, D.C. partner Les Carnegie, with associates Ehson Kashfipour and Katherine Ryan; on French corporate matters by Paris partner Alexander Crosthwaite and Simon Lange, with associate François Blanchet; and on French employment matters by Paris partner Matthias Rubner.

"FuboTV and Disney Finalize Merger to Combine Fubo with Hulu + Live TV"

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