SPORT AND SPONSORSHIP
SECTOR LAWYERS

We help you get all the right documents in place to monetise your sports and commercial assets efficiently. Our finance and consumer teams are well-versed in the sporting world and advise companies like yours to encourage fan revenue, branded merchandising agreements, manufacturing, season ticket funding and finance, and the terms and conditions that accompany your commercial offering. 

Ensure that your organisation's property portfolio is held and structured in a way that is optimised for both its primary purpose and to maximise all other potential income streams. Our specialists advise you and draft new agreements that fit your needs. 

Work with a legal team who are in regular contact with multiple top 6 premier league clubs, where we advise on stadium and training ground developments, procurement, expansion projects, health and safety, ground share agreements and all associated brand and sponsorship agreements.

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Our 50-strong team of investigative lawyers guide sports governing bodies, players, match officials and clubs through the most sensitive and challenging matters affecting their operations. Our broad range of expertise covers bullying and harassment, safeguarding, financial and general crime, health and safety, environmental and regulatory misconduct.

Weaknesses in your business governance leads to lost revenue, and unstable performance. Governance and Compliance is one of the most important areas to your future investors, and increasing focus for regulators and lawmakers. We help create and enhance your policies, to ensure a polished and accessible structure.

Our Reputation and Information Protection lawyers help sports businesses and professionals protect and defend their reputation, privacy and confidential information. We will support you with strategic advice, crisis management, representation and, where necessary, litigation. We usually work collaboratively with PR and communications teams, to manage the crisis and/or ensure that the record is set straight after the event.

Competition is at the heart of sport, whether you're a club, governing body or professional. Our competition law specialists are on hand to advise every step of the way with expertise spanning rights, regulation, data and investigations. 

From commercial arrangements and challenges with suppliers and partners, to the interplay with sporting rules at all levels, to investigations by competition authorities across the globe, our team will remove any guess work and manage your competition matters from start to finish. 

Disputes can arise at all levels, and the key to dealing with them is having the right team and game-plan. Our disputes lawyers help you to resolve conflicts, mitigate your risks, and fight your corner. We've advised sporting organisations, governing bodies and professionals on all manner of commercial, employment and competition disputes in the sports sector.

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Review and prepare for the specific data vulnerabilities that affect the sport sector. We help you to protect fan information and ensure you are compliant with applicable rules around GDPR and data protection.

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Trust a commercial legal team who routinely works on RTM cards in the IPL auction process during mega auctions. We use our legal knowledge to help you retain players that are up for bidding.

Our knowledge of your sport means we understand the context of your next IPL auction and can appropriately advise you and recommend legal tactics that will help you build a stronger team, and a more profitable business.

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