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Former manager hoops it up with licensing venture.


IT seems that AJ DiScala is ready to play ball. The former husband and manager of "Sopranos actress Jamie Lynn Jamie Lynn can refer to:
  • Jamie-Lynn Sigler (born 1981), actress on The Sopranos
  • Jamie Lynn Spears (born 1991), actress on Zoey 101
  • Jamie Lynn (porn star) (born 1981), Penthouse model
  • Jaime Lynn (born 1980), Playboy model
 Sigler is now marketing himself as an investment banker Investment Banker

A person representing a financial institution that is in the business of raising capital for corporations and municipalities.

Notes:
An investment banker may not accept deposits or make commercial loans.
 and sports impresario.

"I've always been a deal guy," said DiScala, "I was never an agent."

DiScala and Sigler separated two years after they were married in 2003. DiScala is teaming up with another dealmaker deal·mak·er  
n.
One that makes deals, as in business, finance, or politics.



dealmak
, Tom Petters, chairman and chief executive of Minnetonka, Wis.-based Petters Group Worldwide, to create a company that plans to license products and minor league teams in partnership with the American Basketball Association
For the league that began in 1999, see American Basketball Association (2000-).
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967, and eventually merged, in part, with the National Basketball
.

The new company, Beverly Hills-based Brax Capital Group, has reserved five ABA markets with plans to operate its own teams.

It remains to be seen how quickly the new project will come together.

Last year, DiScala and Petters joined two young entrepreneurs and singer Nick Lachey to launch a social networking site A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post.  for teenagers called YFly.com. The site received a lot of publicity but is still under construction.
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Title Annotation:PAGE THREE
Author:Berry, Kate
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jul 24, 2006
Words:166
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