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1 Crown Office Row has extensive experience not only in this area of the law, but also in a wide variety of sports both as participants and administrators.

11KBW’s barristers advise and represent clients on sports law and sports-related matters, both as a stand-alone specialism and as a natural adjunct to our award-winning employment practice, as well as our highly-acclaimed human rights, regulatory, public, EU, data protection/data privacy and commercial law practices.

The 2TG Sports Law Team comprises specialist advocates who have extensive experience of acting for clients in high profile or sensitive matters across all major sports including football, rugby (union and league), motorsports (F1, MotoGP, motocross, Formula 3 and karting), cycling, equestrianism, cricket, skiing, gymnastics, martial arts, netball and tennis.

In the sports law sector members of 39 Essex Chambers offer a full service, multi-disciplinary approach, with expertise in commercial contracts, service agreements, image rights, intellectual property, competition law, state aid, insurance coverage, governance, disciplinary, licensing, gaming, tax, VAT, planning, stadium construction and safety, immigration, anti-doping, selection and eligibility, judicial review and safeguarding. When required, members are able to call on their commercial experience in dealing with fraud and corruption issues.

4 New Square Chambers is one of the leading sets for Sports Law in the UK. Chambers regularly acts for domestic and international governing bodies, clubs, agents, and individual athletes, as well as mediating and arbitrating significant sports disputes.

Addleshaw Goddard is The Lawyer's 2024 "Law Firm of The Year, and almost 250 years in the making. We're trusted by over 5000 major organisations, including 51 FTSE 100 companies, to solve problems, deliver deals, defend rights, comply with regulations and mitigate risk.

In an increasingly globalised and contentious market, A&M’s international Disputes and Investigations team provides clients with market-leading services with a passionate understanding of the pressures of the sports industry.

Baker Tilly’s Forensic, Litigation and Valuation Services team is a multidisciplinary forensic accounting and consulting practice that provides accurate and reliable financial analysis to organisations seeking clarity in complex situations. With an experienced global team in offices on five continents, we are unified by a single goal: to deliver complete, accurate financial analysis with absolute integrity. Our clients include multinational corporations, global insurance companies, leading law firms and government entities.

We are experts in criminal law and are consistently top-ranked by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. We act for a diverse portfolio of clients including companies, individuals, and public bodies.

Our team is widely regarded as a market-leading sports, media and entertainment practice. We advise clients on the full range of issues, including defamation; litigation; financing; acquisitions; real estate and more.

Members of Blackstone Chambers have exceptional expertise and experience across all areas of sports law, ranging from state control of the sector, through sports body governance and regulation, and employment and other horizontal relationships between participants, to all aspects of the commercial exploitation of sport.

Brandsmiths has established itself as the ‘go to’ law firm for those operating in the sports sector.

Whilst the Firm advises across almost the entire spectrum of sports, it has become particularly renowned for its work in football and boxing.

Our market-leading sports team have acted in some of the most high profile matters in Scotland. With a broad range of clients, including governing bodies, sports clubs, tournament-organisers, sports people, venues, rights-holders and sponsors we have a wealth of sports sector experience.

Charles Russell Speechlys is the preeminent law firm for clients in the sport sector, and has been at the forefront of providing legal advice in the sports sector for more than 100 years

We have a dedicated global, cross-practice Sports Sector Group with unrivalled expertise and experience, built on 25 years of providing innovative and commercial solutions to our clients around the world. The group regularly advises on the biggest ticket issues facing sporting bodies, investors, clubs and lenders.

Clyde & Co is a dynamic, global law firm focused on providing complete legal services to clients across the UK & Ireland, and globally.

Financial planning, Investment Management and educational advice for individuals from the sports and entertainment sector.

At Forsters, we have a dedicated group of lawyers with extensive experience to advise, act for and support clients in the sports sector.

Fragomen is a leading provider of immigration services for the sports industry, handling the full range of immigration issues in the sports sector for decades. We work with many top sports industry clients and are deeply familiar with the immigration issues you may be facing. We represent every variety of client, including casework for individual athletes and their families, coaches and essential sports personnel as well as corporate immigration for television networks, sports teams and leagues, and related marketing and promotion companies.

Harbottle & Lewis LLP is a full service law firm with a team of market leading sport and entertainment lawyers who act as trusted advisers to elite level athletes and up and coming talent, as well as clubs and teams and other stakeholders in sport. 

As Chambers Scottish Firm of the Year 2025 and Scotland's first recognised sports law specialist team, Harper Macleod has been top ranked in sport by the UK's leading independent legal directories since 1999.

HCR Law has over 800 people across England and Wales, providing city-quality legal
services to individuals and businesses across the southwest, the West Midlands, Wye Valley and Thames Valley corridors. We provide exceptional customer service, tailoring our expertise to individual client’s needs. We work with clubs and organisations that operate locally to our offices, whether they are at grassroots level or big household names.

The sports industry is one of the most thrilling sectors and provokes a multitude of passion, opinions and excitement for everyone involved. The opportunities and challenges are far-reaching and diverse. We at Herbert Smith Freehills help businesses navigate the sector in order to help our clients thrive in the complex and rapidly changing landscape.

Market-leading litigation practice representing individuals and organisations in the sporting world which face the prospect of criminal investigation, proceedings, or associated litigation. 

Our experts are on hand to support clients when serious incidents occur, including managing the immediate incident response and PR implications, resolving civil damages claims, regulatory and criminal investigations including complex Inquests and Fatal Accident Inquiries, commercial disputes and advising on insurance coverage and wordings.

We are a Top 100 UK law firm with offices in London, Cardiff, Manchester, and on the South Coast, advising leading organisations and brands, including British Boxing Board of Control, Welsh Rugby Union and Football Association of Wales.  

HW Fisher is part of the Sumer Group, a top 15 accountancy practice providing expert accountancy, audit, tax, corporate and financial advisory services to high-profile entrepreneurial SMEs, large corporates and high net-worth individuals.

K&L Gates’ sports practice has been servicing the legal needs of individuals and businesses involved in the sports sector for over 20 years. We have a market-leading international team of sport and entertainment lawyers throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.

We have significant experience advising a wide variety of athletes, agents, managers, clubs, brands and other stakeholders within sport

Littleton has a growing reputation for sports law - particularly in the area of employment, commercial and disciplinary/regulatory sports litigation.

Our sports law team has advised clients on a wide range of legal issues across a variety of different sports for over fifty years. In that time, we have built a strong foundation based upon providing clients with a wealth of experience and a personal and engaging approach.

Moore Barlow is a leading top 100 UK law firm with offices across London and the south east of England. Our sports law team is ranked by the Legal 500 as being a leading sports law practice in the south east. Our co-head Daniel Baker, is ranked in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500 as being a “Leading Associate” in sports law.

Founded in 2005, Onside Law are the pioneers of boutique sports law, with unrivalled sector knowledge and experience.

We offer comprehensive expertise in sports law, encompassing commercial rights, regulation tax and crisis management.

Our team of specialists operate across multiple jurisdictions including the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Poland and the US.

Outer Temple Chambers’ Sports Law team has an established team of internationally recognised barristers offering comprehensive coverage of all areas of sports law including safeguarding, litigation, governance and regulation, employment and commercial contracts.

The business, promotion and governance of sport and of global sporting events sit at the heart of our own organisation. Our global sports team provides strategic and operational guidance and solutions across all legal disciplines. We divide our team between experts delivering excellence on key legal issues and our global sports advisory group providing strategic guidance and delivery.

Ranmore Law is a specialist sports law practice that was established in 2023.  It has rapidly developed a significant client base with a focus on supporting National Governing Bodies and clubs across a range of issues including governance, safeguarding, disputes and commercial growth. 

The sports law team at Russells now boasts a prestigious client list across the sports world, from individual sportspeople including athletes, footballers and boxers, to sporting organisations; we have extensive experience acting for promotors, managers, event organisers and other sporting bodies. 

Secretariat is an Expert Services, Litigation Consulting, and Economic Advisory firm working with the world’s leading law firms, corporations, and governmental agencies to resolve conflicts and mitigate complex risks. Quality, integrity, and independence are woven into every aspect of our work.

Sheridans' industry-recognised Sports Law group works with and within a number of sports, including football, cricket, basketball, tennis, athletics, golf, rugby union and league, table tennis, cycling, badminton and netball, and regularly advises clients (both in the UK and internationally) on all commercial matters relating to sports law.

Our lawyers have experience acting for a variety of different stakeholders in the world of sport and beyond, including clubs, leagues, governing bodies, associations, individual athletes and third parties such as corporate sponsors. With both a regional and a City presence, we have the flexibility to tailor our services to the largest institutions or to the individual, and everything in between.

We act for National Governing Bodies, Integrity Agencies, Premier League and Championship clubs, players, athletes and other sporting individuals.

Wiggin’s sports team specialises in the funding, creation and execution of high value commercial opportunities which form the bedrock for the funding of sport. We’re best known for advising both sports rights holders and buyers of high-value audio-visual and data rights.

Wordley Partnership specialise in disputes and corporate law advising professional and amateur sports clubs, organisations and businesses; associations; sports national governing bodies, individual sports participants , players, coaches and instructors.