The National Football League’s Chicago Bears are adding some legal firepower to further their bid to finalize a multibillion-dollar deal for a new stadium.
Krista Whitaker is joining the NFL franchise as executive vice president of legal and business affairs, the Bears said Tuesday. Andrea Zopp is the team’s new senior adviser for legal and business affairs.
Whitaker is a former corporate associate at Proskauer Rose who for the past three years has worked for the National Basketball Association’s Miami Heat, where she most recently was an associate general counsel.
Zopp, managing partner of venture capital firm Cleveland Avenue LLC, ...
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