Baird D. Fogel

This include mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, commercial law and settlements, compliance, corporate governance, as well as international project finance, project development, and project construction. Baird has particular experience with both domestic and international clients in the sports industry.

Baird regularly advises individual collegiate athletes, as well as professional franchises and athletes in the NFL and NBA on various corporate, transactional and commercial matters related to the operation and sale of professional franchises, sponsorship, NIL, NFTs, sports betting, and investment. He has also developed unique experience with respect to regulatory and energy matters related to the construction of arenas, stadiums and practice facilities, stadium/arena energy efficiency, and stadium/practice facility renewable energy projects. Clients report to Chambers USA that Baird “exudes professionalism" and "he knows the industry so well and his advice is invaluable."

In addition to his sports industry practice, Baird also has extensive experience in the renewable energy space, including matters related to energy storage, microgrids, transmission, net metering, solar, wind, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, construction, residential, commercial, small- and largescale utility, government relations, and investment and finance.

Baird’s 25-year career has spanned both in-house and law firm positions. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, he was a partner in the sports and energy practice of a major global law firm. Prior to this, he served as vice president and general counsel of BP Solar & Wind, where he developed and implemented strategy for the development and construction of solar projects, the manufacturing of solar modules, and the sale of solar modules in Europe, India, China, Latin America and the US, in addition to managing all legal matters for the company.

Before his role at BP, he served as vice president and general counsel to a global subsidiary of GE Transportation, directly supervising all legal matters for the company's global signaling unit, including managing international legal teams and litigation, establishing joint ventures, developing and constructing infrastructure projects, and advising on supply chain and manufacturing issues. Additionally, Baird was the chief compliance and ethics officer at both subsidiaries for both GE and BP.

Baird currently serves as the Managing Partner of the San Francisco office.