• University of Southern California – Gould School of Law; Juris Doctorate (Moot Court Honors, School Academic Scholarship); 2000-2003
  • Northwestern University; Bachelor of Arts(Political Science Departmental Honors Program); 1996-2000
  • State Bar of California
  • United States District Court, Central District of California
  • Major League Baseball Players Association

About

Alfred “Chip” Sloan, is an attorney licensed in the State of California. Over his 20 year career, he has worked at some of the country’s top law firms and agencies in both New York and Los Angeles. Most recently, Chip co-founded a new private equity firm – Acceleration Equity, operated as Counsel at Scale LLP, Pryor Cashman LLP and as a shareholder at LeClair Ryan LLP. Chip began his career at the Beverly Hills Sports Council in Los Angeles. Chip’s unique and diverse background as a sports agent, entertainment lawyer, counsel and advisor to elite hedge and venture funds, and general counsel to various corporations, gives him an unique range of experience. He is well versed in a wide variety of complex legal matters and his expertise includes, but is not limited to, entity formation and strategy, business startups, fund creation and capital raising, branding and patents, business agreements, real estate, and complex mergers and acquisitions.

Chip is fluent in English, Spanish and conversational Portuguese. He has regularly guest lectured at Columbia University’s graduate sports law program.

Early on in his career, Chip clerked for the Honorable Judge Kathleen March in California where he worked on a broad array of complex civil litigation in the U.S. District Court-9th Circuit. Chip is a 2003 graduate of The University of Southern California School of Law, where he was in the Moot Court Honors Program and a graduate of Northwestern University, B.A. – Political Science Departmental Honors Program.