There are well over a dozen law firms involved in the LIV Golf bankruptcy proceedings, but perhaps none has as personal—or immediate—a stake as Blank Rome LLP.
Earlier this year, the Philadelphia-headquartered firm expanded its presence in Florida by adding a five-lawyer office in West Palm Beach.
It set up shop in an unlikely location: LIV Golf’s former U.S. command post.
In February, Blank Rome entered into a sublease agreement with LIV Golf for the league’s office 10,930 square feet of space in a mixed-use high-rise overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. The arrangement began just two months before LIV Golf’s future was thrown into doubt, when Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced it would cease plowing money into the renegade PGA challenger.
Now, as LIV Golf seeks to shed the lease as part of its Chapter 11 restructuring, Blank Rome is scrambling to find new digs of its own—and sooner than it would like. The firm is seeking more time to relocate, arguing that LIV Golf failed to give it advance notice of its attempt to terminate the lease.
The court has deferred a decision on the lease and sublease rejections until a hearing Wednesday.
The dispute emerged as a rare point of overt contention in last week’s bankruptcy hearing, which was dominated by the news that golfer Jon Rahm would be parting ways with the LIV Golf. Other players have until Oct. 25 to formally sign on with the league’s post-bankruptcy reset, promoted as LIV 2.0.
Meanwhile, Blank Rome, which has 16 offices and 800 lawyers globally, has asked the court for permission to remain in the space until at least the end of this month so it van vacate “in an orderly manner.” Its request would keep its sublease from being swept into the group of deals LIV Golf has petitioned to reject retroactively, which include player participation contracts and dozens of vendor agreements.
LIV Golf originally signed a five-and-a-half-year lease for the West Palm Beach offices in November 2021, before eventually moving its headquarters to New York City. The South Florida location was a natural fit for the upstart golf league, offering proximity to the homes of many professional golfers including Greg Norman, LIV’s founding CEO, who resides in nearby Palm Beach Gardens. It was also just across the bridge from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Palm Beach Island.
The lease was guaranteed by LIV Golf Ltd., which is organized in Britain and holds the league’s non-American assets. But four years into the agreement, LIV Golf determined that continued occupancy “was no longer necessary or desirable,” according to court filings. A source familiar with the matter said LIV Golf began transitioning out of the office in January 2025. In its subsequent two seasons, the league hosted events in 10 countries and five continents.
The financial terms of the original West Palm Beach lease and sublease have not been publicly disclosed. Although the agreement with Blank Rome provides “partial mitigation,” LIV Golf told the bankruptcy court last month, the property “continues to be a net operational loser.”
Separately, the court has approved the debtor’s rejection of a separate lease agreement, signed in January 2026, for six seats and 171 square feet at a co-working facility in Scottsdale, Ariz.
LIV Golf and Josef Mintz, the Blank Rome partner representing his firm in the bankruptcy, did not provide comment prior to publication.
So far, LIV Golf has not sought to terminate or modify the lease of its U.S. headquarters, which is located on the 65th floor of a skyscraper in New York’s Hudson Yards. The league moved there in May 2024 from a smaller space near Grand Central Terminal, seeking to accommodate a growing workforce that had topped 100 employees in the United States and over 300 internationally. Most of those employees were laid off after PIF announced its funding pullback.