KSMG – Athlete Management Services

Pre-draft preparation

KSMG understands what it takes to compete at the professional level.  Our proactive approach prepares our clients for Pro Day Workouts, the NFL Combine and Pre-Draft Workouts. KSMG also provide access to some of the NFL’s most trusted and experienced personal trainers. Our clients receive personalized instruction from renowned strength, speed, skills and agility trainers specifically with workouts tailored to their needs.  KSMG clients will have the opportunity to train alongside other potential NFL draft prospects and current NFL players.

Sports Contract Negotiations

As attorneys and licensed player representatives, the KSMG team provides a rare combination of legal knowledge to all sports contract negotiations. KSMG clients benefit from our 25 years of legal experience, giving our clients a competitive edge. Led by NFLPA certified contract advisor and attorney Tom Kaufmann, the KSMG team takes a practical approach to incorporating our client’s needs into every sports contract and athlete endorsement deal we negotiate.

Endorsement Reviews & Licensing Agreements

Our Intellectual Property attorneys pride themselves on their ability to handle all legal matters regarding the solicitation and execution of athlete endorsement agreements. Among their accomplishments, they have negotiated a number of celebrity endorsements, event agreements, and licensing agreements for athletes and entertainers in a myriad of fields.

General Legal Counsel

Affiliated with the Chicago law firm of Querrey & Harrow, KSMG has access to over 70 attorneys with experience in  many areas of litigation and legal counseling. The firm’s foundation of trial practice excellence has provided our clients with a formidable force when appearing in court or sitting at the negotiating table. However, because litigation can be an expensive and distracting concern, our attorneys often develop solutions that can minimize the occurrence of future disputes or claims. In some cases, trial is unavoidable and our clients benefit from our attorneys’ extensive courtroom experience to achieve positive results.

When it comes to corporate counseling and structuring transactions, our clients benefit from the talents of experienced business lawyers. Our lawyers understand the dynamics of family businesses as well as the pressures of large corporations and can facilitate the execution of transactions and operational improvements to protect intellectual capital and grow revenue.

Tax & Estate Planning for Athletes

Our veteran tax practice attorneys provide counseling in the areas of Federal Income Taxation, Estate & Gift Taxation, Federal Tax Controversies, State Tax Controversies (before the Illinois Department of Revenue and similar state agencies around the country), Criminal Taxation Law, Tax Planning and Litigation, Bankruptcy, Taxation, and International Tax Law.

The firm’s estate planning practice covers a wide spectrum of legal instruments and services, all aimed at protecting, preserving, and distributing assets in accordance with a person's wishes. No two situations will ever be exactly the same, and therefore, special attention to detail is required.

Every attorney on our team has extensive knowledge of, and practical experience implementing, the various techniques available to preserve individual wealth from litigation, future creditors, divorce, and investment risk. These techniques include the optimization of state and federal exemptions for assets, retirement plans, annuities and life insurance, marital property planning, the use of inter vivos marital, dynasty children's trusts, and tax and entity planning.

In addition, we provide advice regarding wealth preservation and risk management through the implementation of foreign trust and related business, investment, life insurance structures, and assisting clients with the tax planning and compliance aspects of such structures. We maintain strong relationships with fiduciaries, money managers, and attorneys in more than eleven foreign jurisdictions and conform to strict due diligence and "know your client" policies. We are experienced in assisting U.S. clients with settling offshore trusts, and forming various foreign entities that provide clients with a comfortable balance of control and protection of assets while allowing clients to manage their family's wealth risk and accumulate assets for future generations