Dodgers Put Together Their Team to Handle Sale of the Club and Land

The Dodgers have assembled their team--off the field, that is--for the proposed sale of the club, surrounding land and other holdings, recently hiring legal advisors, an investment banking firm and a tax and auditing firm.

Chief legal advisor to Dodger President Peter O’Malley will be Ken Bishop of O’Melveny & Meyers in addition to four other attorneys from the firm. The investment banking firm overseeing the deal is Goldman, Sachs & Co. and the tax and auditing firm is Ernst & Young LLP, which has handled Dodger matters in the past.

Bishop, a partner at O’Melveny, represented Sony when the entertainment giant tried to purchase the Kings and the Lakers in December 1993. He also has experience handling the purchase of a baseball team, representing Tom Werner when the television producer bought the San Diego Padres in 1990.