Our experts have developed a deep understanding of your sector so you can feel safe in the knowledge of having specialists in your corner.
We have decades of experience advising on sport, media and entertainment matters. Uniquely, we cover all relevant industry disciplines, including:
- Commercial agreements (including sponsorship and image rights)
- Media rights, content licensing and distribution
- Disciplinary
- Employment (including discrimination claims and settlement agreements)
- Finance, insolvency and restructuring
- Football regulations
- IP, brand protection and content piracy
- Immigration for sport professionals and media talent
- Landmark doping cases
- Leading work in discrimination in sport
- Players' contracts and transfers
- Private client/tax
- Reputation management
- Sports arbitration (domestic and international) and litigation
- Sports stadia construction and real estate
- Technology and eSports
We build strong, long-term relationships with our clients by providing free education, be it online, through blogs and articles or through the regular seminars we host on sport, media and entertainment legal issues.
Aside from offering focussed legal expertise, our lawyers have genuine in-depth knowledge of the sport, media and entertainment industry. Many of our team members have held senior roles as directors, trustees, arbitrators, in-house counsel, or are former professional athletes. The team is often invited to speak at conferences, lectures and events.
