Lacrosse champion and Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) co-founder Paul Rabil describes the origin of the league and his initial bid to acquire Major League Lacrosse (MLL).
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“So about six months later, we went back to MLL with overhead capital that we had acquired at the time as primarily private equity, and we proposed a number of different scenarios of essentially buying them or rolling them up and keeping them involved from an equity standpoint”
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