UPDATED with Endeavor statement: The WGA told the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday that Endeavor's IPO registration last month inaccurately reported its client numbers, a claim Endeavor has rejected. "In its IPO Registration Statement, Endeavor claims to represent over 6,000 clients including the 'world's…

Ari Emanuel wasn't looking at the Chief of Staff position that his brother held in the Obama administration but the WME boss was certainly considered for a gig in Donald Trump's White House after his Celebrity Apprentice client was elected in 2016 to almost everyone’s surprise. Vetting documents leaked to political…

Endeavor Content television executive Max Saines has died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a pre-existing heart condition. He was 28 years old.   Saines began his career in the mailroom at WME, later joining the trainee program and working in the agency's television department. He joined Endeavor Content in 2017 and…

June 1, 2019 marks the official 10-year anniversary of the William Morris Agency-Endeavor merger. As part of Deadline’s coverage of the milestone, we reached out to John Ferriter, former WMA EVP/Worldwide Head of Non-Scripted TV, who was the only board member in either company who voted against the merger. He was let…

June 1, 2019 marks the official 10-year anniversary of the William Morris Agency-Endeavor merger. It wasn’t a marriage of equals, with 14-year-old Endeavor, then valued at $100 million-plus, joining forces with a Hollywood royalty, the 111-year-old WMA valued at more than twice as much. But, in one of the most…

Saturday marks the official 10-year anniversary of the William Morris Agency-Endeavor merger into WME. Coincidentally, WME is marking the anniversary with its parent Endeavor filing for an IPO, an illustration of how far the company has gone in a decade. In 2009, Endeavor was a”client-rich” mid-size agency with big…

In order to move toward its long-awaited IPO, Endeavor has had to reveal a trove of financial information, including the pay packages for Ari Emanuel, Patrick Whitesell and other executives, as well as extensive details about its financial performance. The 387-page SEC filing dropped late last week by Endeavor Group…

Endeavor has officially made a move that many from Wall Street to Hollywood have long expected, filing with the SEC to become a publicly traded company. No range was given in the S-1 prospectus for how much the company hopes to raise from the initial public offering, though the 200-page document did include a range of…

Endeavor, a global entertainment, sports and content company, has hired Alicin Reidy Williamson as Senior Vice President, Chief Inclusion Officer and Sarah Prost as Senior Vice President, Total Rewards, a newly created position. Williamson will lead all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across Endeavor. Reidy…

Endeavor has hired Justina Omokhua for the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Brand Marketing. Based in the company’s Beverly Hills office, Omokhua will be charged with driving marketing efforts across the Endeavor network. Omokhua moves to Endeavor from Apple where she served as the Global Head of…

Talk about timing. WGA members are right now voting to authorize its WGA West board and WGA East council to implement a new agency code of conduct that includes banning packaging fees and severing agency ties to affiliated production entities. That vote closes Sunday morning. What a moment for a bombshell Wall Street J…

ESPN+ has expanded and extended its rights deal with the UFC and will now be the exclusive distributor of the MMA league’s pay-per-view events in the U.S. through 2025. The deal also adds two years to a five-year streaming rights pact struck last May for a reported $150 million a year. ESPN also has linear rights to…