Income Share Agreements
I blogged last year about an IPO for a football player – the public offering of a share of the right to receive 20% of Arian Foster’s future football-related income. There is a movement afoot now to introduce this concept in a much broader way: the sale of a share of future earnings as a means for college students to finance their education, as an alternative to incurring student debt. The current state of affairs is summarized in this Slate article. …