Sports
In a progressively more global sector, our international, cross-practice sports sector team provide clients with innovative, commercial and tailored solutions to the most complex and challenging matters within the sports industry
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Sports
In a progressively more global sector, our international, cross-practice sports sector team provide clients with innovative, commercial and tailored solutions to the most complex and challenging matters within the sports industry
The sports sector is a major international growth market that is at the forefront of digital development and consumer engagement, providing stakeholders with both significant development and return opportunities as well as increasingly more complex and sophisticated challenges.
Our global, cross-practice sports sector team combines a real passion and understanding of the sector and its specific requirements and pressures (including increased regulatory scrutiny) with exceptional multi-jurisdictional expertise across all areas of corporate/M&A, finance and banking, capital markets and equity financing, commercial, technology and media, crisis management, data protection, IP, dispute resolution, regulatory and compliance investigations, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, anti-trust, employment and tax matters. This puts us in a unique position to be able to provide our clients with a full and seamless end-to-end service in order to help them successfully navigate the most complex and high-profile matters arising in the sector.
Technological innovation is also rapidly transforming the sports sector, including through the development of eSports and the increased monetisation of sports data. Together with our dedicated Fintech and Technology sector teams, we are able to provide clients with an unparalleled multi-jurisdictional depth of legal, commercial and regulatory expertise.
Our clients include corporates, financial sponsors and high-net-worth individuals as well as sports teams, clubs and governing and regulatory bodies, who we act as trusted advisors to in relation to a full range of matters, including:
Our experience in the sports sector includes advising:
Please see our Financing experience section for further details/information regarding our stadia financing experience
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