Corporate M&A

The Sports, Fashion and Entertainment Practice Area at Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados is considered innovative, differentiating and of excellence in the Portuguese and International market, focusing on transversal, and specialised legal advice for celebrities, companies and organisations in the Sports, Fashion and Entertainment industries. All this, in a “family office” mindset within a global, innovative and highly technological law firm.

Clarke Willmott are specialist solicitors for the sports sector. We provide a full service that is proactive, sharp and cost effective for all your legal issues, from sports employment disputes and disciplinary matters to stadia construction projects; from commercial contracts and sponsorship agreements, to advising on high profile sports club insolvencies.

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.

Whether it’s complex M&A transactions, disputes or regulatory advice, we provide clients with everything they need on their most important matters when operating in the sports industry.

We also advise on compliance, investigations, financings and key employment matters. In addition, we have experience with rights commercialisation in broadcasting, licensing and sponsorship deals and on content distribution, including over-the-top (OTT) services.

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.

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.

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 to help them successfully navigate the most complex and high-profile matters arising in the sector.

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.