DON MEEHAN

THE LONGTIME AGENT AND FOUNDER OF NEWPORT TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BECAME A PLAYER REP, WHY HE’S BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITH HIS FIRM AND HOW THE BUSINESS HAS CHANGED

WITH RYAN KENNEDY

AGE: 73 / TOP 100: 10 NEWPORT SPORTS PLAYER AGENT THE HOCKEY NEWS: Let’s start off with the origin story. I know you were a lawyer before you were in the agent business, but how did that happen? DON MEEHAN: I graduated from McGill University’s faculty of law in 1975 and came to Toronto, where I articled with a firm called Blaney Pasternak (now Blaney McMurtry). I practised with them for three years, and in 1981, I decided to incorporate a company which would allow me to represent NHL players. That’s really when I started. That was really the area of law I wanted to practise in. The firm I was with didn’t really feel like that was in their best interests, so I started out on my own in 1980 and incorporated…

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