New Austin Soccer Team Taps DLA Piper Partner as General Counsel

A Major League Soccer expansion team in Austin, Texas, partially owned by actor Matthew McConaughey has recruited a new legal chief from the ranks of Big Law.

Eric Hagen confirmed to Bloomberg Law that he had recently become senior vice president and general counsel for Austin FC, which will become part of MLS as the league’s 27th team in 2021.

Hagen joined DLA Piper’s intellectual property and technology practice as a partner in July 2018, after more than a decade as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in Los Angeles, where he once led that law firm’s trade secrets ...