We work off the pitch to ensure that you can focus on results
Our experts possess first-hand market-leading international and domestic experience with legal matters and deep understanding of commercial specifics concerning all stakeholders in the sporting sector involving a wide range of sports, in particular, football, e-sports, teqball, athletics, water sports, tennis, cycling, as well as many others. Our office regularly provides legal advice to athletes, sporting organisations and associations, sponsors, coaches, sporting event organisers, sporting equipment manufacturers, media companies, agencies, player agents, and sporting institutions.
Over recent years, we have represented our clients in a variety of extraordinary, complex, and strategically significant matters in a diverse range of sports. Thanks to our deep knowledge of the industry and our love of sport, we know and understand the interests, circumstances, and environment of all participants in the sporting sector, enabling us to effectively help them achieve success in both their sporting and their professional lives.
Our services
- Comprehensive support for sporting events (legal matters associated with the full life cycle of major international sporting events, including in particular preparing, commenting on, and negotiating event organisation contracts, the bidding process, event organisation, broadcasting and sponsorship contracts, rights protection programmes, and force majeure situations in a variety of sports)
- Sports and e-sports-related commercial contracts (marketing, sponsorship, image transfer, representation, media rights, event organisation and other sports-related contracts)
- Sports and e-sports regulations (including good governance matters and establishing and operating complex regulatory and competition structures)
- Player/athlete agreements, transfers
- Private asset management for sports stakeholders
- Sports dispute resolution & arbitration
