Sports Law
Our sports team is recognised both nationally and internationally as one of the largest and most experienced multidisciplinary legal teams in the sports industry, having acted in many of the leading cases that have helped shape the current sports law landscape.
Renowned for a variety of high-end work — ranging from advising on the acquisition of football clubs in administration to acting for prominent public figures in crisis management matters — we serve an exceptional client base that includes elite sports clubs, national governing bodies, international federations and large sports agencies both throughout the UK and around the world, as well as high-profile individuals across the sector on a range of private client, commercial and sporting matters.
Many of our sports specialists are continuously ranked in professional guides as leading individuals in their fields (including in The Legal 500) and are regular commentators on legal issues in sport, featuring in national and regional press as well as on radio and television. As a firm, we are ranked in the top tier of The Legal 500 for sports law and commended in The Times Best Law Firms 2024.
We are highly experienced and specialised legal advisers who truly understand the sports environment.
Find out more about our services and talk to our team below.
How we can help
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Our services
Our multidisciplinary sports law offering enables clients to access the widest range of specialist lawyers with expertise in:
- Anti-doping
- Arbitrations and committees
- Banking and finance
- Betting and integrity
- Charity
- Commercial
- Contracts
- Corporate (mergers and acquisitions)
- Crime
- Crisis and reputation management
- Data
- Defamation, privacy and harassment
- Disciplinary
- Eligibility, selection and participation
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Employment
- Funding
- Governance and constitution
- Health and safety
- Immigration and employment
- Intellectual property and brand protection
- Litigation
- Media management
- Professional negligence
- Property and construction
- Real estate
- Regulatory and professional conduct
- Reputation and crisis management
- Safeguarding
- Sponsorship agreements and contracts
- Sports rules and regulations
- Sustainability
- Tax
- Technology