LFP/Mediapro: "Advantage of ad hoc mandate is that it is confidential" (M. Ladreit de Lacharriere)

"The advantage of the ad hoc mandate is that it is confidential and therefore allows full negotiation without a hand brake," explained the French lawyer Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere (LLA Avocats) about the LFP-Mediapro legal dossier with the commercial court of Nanterre (Greater Paris, FRA), in an analysis for News Tank Football on 10/11/2020.

"French football has been living a real nightmare for several weeks. Mediapro France, the main broadcaster of Ligue 1 Uber Eats and Ligue 2 BKT, has decided to block the second payment of its contract scheduled for 05/10/2020 and valued at €172m," recalled Ladreit de Lacharriere.

"Mediapro France, which launched the Téléfoot channel in France on 21/08/2020, had honored its first payment of €172m on 05/08/2020, but the situation completely changed with the approach of the second payment. The non-payment of this deadline is explained in particular by the broadcaster's desire to renegotiate the terms of the contract and to obtain new payment deadlines," he added.

To force the renegotiation of the contract, the broadcaster resorted to the ad hoc…