Jill advises professional leagues, teams, investors, and major rightsholders on the full range of sports transactions, from team acquisitions and franchise investments through naming rights, sponsorships, and complex commercial partnerships.
Jill brings firsthand front office experience, including as General Counsel of the New York Jets, where she advised on league governance, government affairs, international expansion, intellectual property, and other major commercial initiatives. Prior to this, she served as General Counsel to a leading US sportsbook in the early post-PASPA era, negotiating landmark market access arrangements with major gaming operators.
Jill also represents clients in tribal and commercial sports betting and gaming matters, including licensing and compliance with tribal-state gaming compacts, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and state gaming regulations.
Jill teaches Sports Law and Ethics at Columbia University.
- The Paul Allen Estate on the sale of the Portland Trail Blazers
- Oracle on the renewal of their title sponsorship for Red Bull Racing
- The New York Jets on naming rights and cornerstone partnerships, as well as gameday services and entertainment, ticketing, technology, infrastructure and food and beverage partnerships
- The New York Jets on its United Kingdom expansion under the NFL's international global markets program, including negotiating international licensing, media rights and sponsorships
- Beyond Sport Foundation on commercial transactions with sports partners, as well as compliance and regulatory operational matters
- PointsBet USA Inc. on the negotiation of a twenty-year agreement with Penn National Gaming Inc., negotiating one of the landmark market access deals of the post-PASPA era with Penn National Gaming
- Private consortium in the formation and capitalization of an international women’s flag football tournament
- PointsBet Inc. on its initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange, including the management of US investor relations and corporate governance
- Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and its resort casino, Foxwoods, on tribal gaming and state compact matters,, tribal taxation, and negotiation of general gaming and sponsorship matters
- Tribal Nations and non-Indian commercial entities on federal tribal compliance under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), including regulatory governance, licensing, and protection of tribal sovereignty in joint venture structuring
- Technology company Kinectify on complex commercial transactions and legal matters related to international expansion, including negotiation of partnerships with some of the largest tribal and commercial casinos in North America
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- Villanova University (BA) 2000
- Suffolk University Law School (JD, International Law, with distinction) 2006
- Admitted as Attorney-at-Law in Massachusetts 2006
- Boston University School of Law (LLM, International Taxation) 2010
- Admitted as Attorney-at-Law in New York 2012
- Admitted as Attorney-at-Law in Colorado 2015
- Joined Clifford Chance as partner 2026