Sports

Our clients include corporates, financial sponsors and high-net-worth individuals as well as sports teams, clubs and governing and regulatory bodies. We act as trusted advisors in relation to a full range of matters, including:

• M&A and investment opportunities (including investments in clubs/teams and competitions and acquisitions of media and television rights).
• Debt and equity financing and securitisations.
• A variety of commercial matters that affect individuals, teams and bodies within the sector (including sponsorship, branding, image rights, IP, data protection and events planning).
• Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations and reputation management.
• A wide range of regulatory and anti-trust matters (including large-scale investigations and governance and compliance reviews).
• Employment law.
• Real estate transactions (including stadium development/expansion and financing).

Why is our team game changing?

• We are one of only a small number of elite global law firms with a dedicated sports sector team – our lawyers have exceptional understanding of the issues and challenges in the sector and regularly write about such topics.
• We have truly global capabilities – you will be able to leverage our full international network of 30 offices in 20 countries. Our team comprises sports sector experts in the UK and key European markets, as well as in the U.S., South America and Asia. We also have an integrated sports sector offering with our alliance firms: Allens in Australia and Webber Wentzel in South Africa.
• We offer an end-to-end service which provides clients with genuine multi-practice capabilities in the sector. The team has a proven track record across corporate/M&A, commercial, finance and litigation, arbitration & investigations.