Creative Artists Agency is finalizing a deal to acquire Todd France’s Five Star Athletes Management, according to Sports Business Daily’s Liz Mullen. France represents nearly 50 NFL players, including Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas and cornerback Aqib Talib.
Per Mullen’s sources, France, who re-acquired Five Star Athletes from Terry Pegula in September 2014 after selling it to him in 2011, has started to tell his clients that he will be joining CAA Sports as early as August.
CAA was ranked by Forbes as the most valuable sports agency in the world in 2014. Its football division, which is led by Jimmy Sexton and Tom Condon (the agent to Peyton and Eli Manning), is said to be more valuable than any other agency.