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Chairman/Governor
Lyman Bullard became a Managing Owner of Portland Pirates, LLC and Chairman and
Governor of the Club in October 2000. Mr. Bullard is a life long summer resident
of Prouts Neck, Maine.
Mr. Bullard serves as the chair of the American Hockey League's Legal Committee and
chaired an AHL committee focusing on spectator safety. He became a member of the League's
Executive Committee in July 2003 and also serves on the League’s Strategic Planning
Committee.
Mr. Bullard, a partner and the Chair of the Specialty Finance Practice Group at
the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart, has one of the preeminent sports law
practices in New England financial institutions and team event owners in commercial
financing transactions, including sports lending and investment banking transactions,
merger and acquisitions, transactions and general business matters involving member
clubs of Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, the National Hockey League,
the American Hockey League, the National Football League, the National Basketball
Association and Major League Lacrosse. Mr. Bullard served as counsel to Delaware
North Companies, Inc. and New Boston Garden Corporation in connection with the
credit facility required to construct the Fleet Center Arena in Boston. He also
represented America3 Foundation in America's Cup Competitions as well as other
clients involved in the professional and amateur sports world. Mr. Bullard served
as counsel to The Country Club for the 1999 Ryder Cup Golf Competition. In addition,
Mr. Bullard represents privately owned companies in acquisitions, financings and
general business matters.
Mr. Bullard is an active participant in his community, serving as the Immediate
Past Chairman of the Board and a member of the Executive Committee of the
Massachusetts Sports and Entertainment Commission, a member of the board of
the Boston Local Organizing Committee for the 2006 Women's Final Four Basketball,
a member of the Development Council of the Center for the Study of Sport in
Society and a member of the Franklin Pierce College Sports Management Advisory
Board and Owners Suite Fund Advisory Board. He coached youth soccer and hockey
in Needham, Massachusetts and for the Charles River Girls Hockey Club for over
a decade. He also serves as Secretary and a member of the Board of Governors
of The Country Club.
Mr. Bullard and his wife Julie live in Needham, Massachusetts and have two
children, Lyman and Sarah
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