Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Phoenix attorney Kaites, former Expos, Nationals president part of Reinsdorf bid for Coyotes - Houston Business Journal:

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Reinsdorf, who owns the Chicago Bulls andWhite Sox, is the lead name on the $148 milliom offer for the team, whichy is in Chapter 11 bankruptcyu reorganization. Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie earlieer madea $213 million offer to buy the hockeu team and move it to Hamilton, Reinsdorf put in his bid Fridauy along with Kaites. Bankruptcy courf filings say Tavares, CEO of New York-based Sportx Properties Acquisition Corp., will join the effort. Kaites is an attorney with LLC in Phoenix and a principal withthe Phoenix-basedf lobbying firm .
The firm counts the Gila River Indian Magellan Health Services and the Professional Firefighters of Arizona union amongbits clients, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’as Office. Kaites served as a prosecutor in MaricopaCounty Attorney’as office before unsuccessfully running for state attorneh general in 1998. He also served in the Arizonas Legislature and worked as a weathermanon KPNX-TV Channel 12. Kaitesw has been a political allyof U.S. Sen. John R-Ariz., serving on his 2008 Arizona presidentialk campaign leadership teamin Arizona. Tavares serve as president of the Montreal Exposd during the time when the baseball team relocated toWashingtonj D.C.
and became the Nationals.

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