The business of sports, advised as one.

Orpheon is built for sports organizations, businesses and athletes. Through the Sports Capital Office, it advises across their whole commercial and financial position and puts the right expertise to work.

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Why Orpheon exists

The business of sports calls for a more complete perspective.

i. Deep specialist expertise

Sport has largely assembled its commercial and financial infrastructure from capabilities developed in adjacent industries. Agencies, banks, investment managers, capital providers, consultants and legal advisers each bring deep expertise, but their mandates are necessarily defined by their specialist disciplines.

ii. One connected position

For clients, these decisions are connected. A rights agreement changes cash flow. The balance sheet shapes what can be invested. Ownership and contracts determine how value is created and retained. Yet decisions are often handled through separate providers and transactions, without one adviser considering the whole.

iii. One adviser across the whole

Orpheon was established to provide the advisory infrastructure across those engagements and beyond individual transactions. Through the Sports Capital Office, Orpheon develops the plan, brings in leading specialists and oversees implementation, considering revenue, capital, ownership and commitments together.

The Sports Capital Office

The capabilities of a multi-family office, built around sports

The client sets the objectives. Orpheon works within the client's existing structure, introducing specialists where needed and leading the agreed work.

Not tied to any single provider. The expertise is selected around the client.

At the center

The client

sets the priorities

Current providers and specialists brought in, each doing their part

Orpheon advises, and brings them together around one plan

Orpheon advises the client across all of it. Each partner firm is responsible for its own specialist services. See the partner network ↓

The partner network

Leading specialists. Institutional depth. One coordinated engine.

The infrastructure behind the world's most sophisticated institutions and families, brought to sports.

Partners are selected for their expertise, track record and ability to address each client's commercial, financial and personal needs.

Client objective

Orpheon

CommercialAgencies, sponsorship, media and rights

Data and technologyIntelligence, platforms and systems

Family officesBalance-sheet advice, investment oversight and financial planning

Asset managers and OCIOInvestment management for institutions, including foundations and endowments

BanksLending, treasury and cash management

Capital partnersPrivate equity, private credit, strategic investors

LegalInstitutional, business and personal, including estate and succession

Sourced as neededAccounting, tax, insurance and specialist vendors

The client

For the client

Higher revenue from existing and new commercial rights

Open architecture

The client's needs determine the choice of expertise, capital and solutions. Orpheon draws on the whole market and coordinates the selected capabilities around the client's plan.

What we do

What clients appoint Orpheon to do

Three areas of work. One adviser responsible for connecting decisions and overseeing delivery.

Grow revenue and opportunity

More commercial revenue, and more income from the balance sheet

Grow commercial earnings and generate income from existing capital.

Sponsorship, rights and partnerships, developed and negotiated
New ventures, and the structures to hold them
Income from money already held

The client getsMore revenue, on the right terms

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Strengthen capital and wealth

Financing, liquidity, investment and long-term wealth

Every dollar working harder, across the whole balance sheet.

Balance-sheet optimization across liquidity, reserves and investment horizons
Financing at the right cost
Long-term investment and wealth planning

The client getsBetter net returns, lower costs, better-funded commitments

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Structure and execute

Ownership, transactions, contracts and governance

Decisions carried through, on structures that last.

Ownership and entity structures
Transactions and contracts
Governance, and one team delivering the plan

The client getsDecisions put into practice, with ongoing oversight

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How the relationship worksFrom first assessment to ongoing advice

Understandthe client's full commercial and financial position
Adviseon priorities and decisions
Implementthe plan, with the appropriate specialist partners
Overseeprogress as needs evolve

Who we serve

For the people and institutions that shape sports

One advisory model and specialist network, applied to each client.

Institutions and teams

Universities, professional teams, leagues and governing bodies

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ii.

Athletes, coaches and families

Commercial, financial and personal interests throughout and beyond a career

iii.

Owners, agencies and sports businesses

Growth, commercial strategy, capital, ownership and succession

iv.

Brands

Strategy, partnerships, rights, intelligence and investment in sports

For firms and advisers

Agencies, family offices and advisers can incorporate the Sports Capital Office into their own client offering.

Owned and operated

Alongside its advisory work, Orpheon builds and operates businesses designed to serve its clients' needs.

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College AthleticsThe Sports Capital Office for college athleticsExplore The FirmOur purpose, and the experience behind the firmExplore

Contact

A private conversation

Orpheon works with a select number of clients and partners. Whether you are planning a project, a partnership or the future of your business, we would be glad to hear from you.

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