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Private Equity’s Growing Role in Global Sports: Scott Jalowayski and Yui Hirohashi Share Insights in GPCA’s 2026 Legal & Regulatory Journal

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Morrison Foerster partner Scott Jalowayski and associate Yui Hirohashi share insights in the Global Private Capital Association’s (GPCA) 2026 Legal & Regulatory Journal, which brings together perspectives from leading practitioners on the legal, regulatory, and structural issues shaping private capital across global growth markets.In their article, “Private Equity and Global Sports,” Scott and Yui examine the growing role of private equity in the global sports sector and the factors driving investor interest in the asset class. As sports businesses increasingly combine media, technology, data, sponsorship, and consumer engagement, investment opportunities are expanding well beyond traditional team ownership.The article considers some of the key commercial and legal dynamics shaping investment activity in the sector, including the growing institutionalization of sports assets, the importance of league and governance structures, and the opportunities as well as complexities investors face when pursuing transactions across different markets.Scott is a member of the GPCA Legal & Regulatory Council, which brings together senior legal professionals from across the global private capital industry to address key legal and regulatory developments affecting investment in growth markets.The Journal also covers developments in private credit, continuation funds and other liquidity solutions, fund structures and economics, venture studios, energy investment, secondaries, and other areas shaping the private capital landscape.Read the <a href="https://www.globalprivatecapital.org/research/legal-regulatory-journal-october-2026/?utm_campaign=31117329-2026%20NewsWatch&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-90XWw4wtciOicSjMhtxH7on_bnwzydeMAF6ZL5RL9ynBk_ewvnRqStGscfOcRf9lflKpBise_qOF_A_IdQzbrTBqCT9Q&_hsmi=442996420&utm_content=442996420&utm_source=hs_email" target="_blank">GPCA 2026 Legal & Regulatory Journal</a> and Scott and Yui’s article, “Private Equity and Global Sports.”

Private Equity’s Growing Role in Global Sports: Scott Jalowayski and Yui Hirohashi Share Insights in GPCA’s 2026 Legal & Regulatory Journal

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Scott Jalowayski has over 20 years of experience advising private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and other global and regional investment managers on complex investments and M&A transactions in Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.His experience spans across a range of transaction types, including leveraged and unleveraged control acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures, divestitures, and restructurings. His sector expertise covers life sciences and healthcare, sports and entertainment, interactive and digital media, technology, consumer products, and real asset and infrastructure enterprises.Scott has significant digital infrastructure experience having advised multiple sponsors on data center acquisition, investment, and development projects in Australia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and the Philippines.Scott is highly regarded as a leading lawyer for private equity and M&A work, including buyouts and venture capital investments by Chambers, Legal 500, and the IFLR1000. Clients commend him for being “a trusted partner, with not only excellent professional knowledge but also strong commercial sense. He always thinks from a client’s perspective and provides timely and thorough advice” and “has strong technical and commercial skills.” Another client recognizes his ability to “provide proper guidance in a complicated deal situation.”<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko Group (NSSK) on its landmark restructuring of the Japan men’s professional golf tour operations, involving the transfer of tour operations and related assets and rights from the Japan Golf Tour Organization to Japan Professional Golf Tour (J-Tour).</li><li>C2 Capital Partners in its investment in, and subsequent equity and debt refinancing of, Stella & Chewy’s, a leading North American pet food manufacturer.</li><li>Nscale, a UK-headquartered AI infrastructure provider, on its strategic expansion across Asia, including Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and South Korea.</li><li>A leading Southeast Asia private equity firm on a joint venture with a global investment firm to establish a regional quick-service restaurant (QSR) platform, including advising on the platform’s complex cross-border acquisitions, franchise arrangements, regulatory, technology transfer and licensing, as well as intellectual property matters.</li></ul><ul><li>TPG Rise Fund in its investment in BillEase, a leading consumer lending platform in the Philippines.</li><li>TPG in multiple proposed acquisitions across Southeast Asia, including in Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.</li><li>Blue Pool Capital in its pre-Series B SAFE financing of Petal Surgical, a U.S.-based surgical technology company pioneering incisionless surgery through its proprietary Acoustic Sculpting technology.</li><li>Blue Pool Capital in its strategic investment and subsequent lead investment in the successful Series A financing of the Asian University Basketball League, a pioneering pan-regional intercollegiate competition featuring Asia's most prestigious university basketball programs.</li><li>KKR in its investment in Privy, a digital trust provider based in Indonesia.</li><li>STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with Hickory, a leading Australian commercial real estate developer, to develop and operate 124MW of data center capacity in Melbourne, Perth, and Canberra.</li><li>STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with ESR Group Limited, to develop and operate 72MW of data center capacity in Osaka, Japan.</li><li>STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with Oaktree, to develop and operate a data center in Tokyo, Japan.</li><li>STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with ESR Group Limited, to develop and operate a 48MW data center in Incheon, Korea.</li><li>Zensho Holdings in its US$621 million acquisition of The Snowfox Group, a multi-channel and international Japanese food business.</li><li>Goldman Sachs/West Street Capital Partners in its US$750 million acquisition, together with Pagoda and QIC, of Icon Cancer Care, a leading oncology services provider in Australia, and in its later sale of Icon to EQT.</li><li>C2 Capital Partners in its investment in Petcurean, a leading North American pet food manufacturer.</li><li>C2 Capital Partners in its investment, together with Cornell Capital, in KDC/One, a leading Beauty, Personal Care and Home Care solutions ODM.</li></ul>

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Yui Hirohashi is an associate in the Corporate Department of Morrison Foerster’s Tokyo office.Yui earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and received her A.B. from Harvard College, where she graduated magna cum laude with Highest Honors.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, she was an associate in the New York and Tokyo offices of another leading international law firm.Yui is admitted to practice law in the state of New York.She is fluent in English and Japanese.