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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.

12KBW’s barristers have significant experience in sports law at all levels of seniority and our silks and juniors regularly appear in courts and specialist tribunals both domestically and internationally across the full range of sports law matters.

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.

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.

Ambiel Advogados was established in 2008 as a boutique firm focused on rendering legal services to the sports sector, by practitioners with solid careers with some of the most respected law firms in Brazil who wanted a more personal and individualized form of serving their clients.

ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN is one of the leading full-service commercial law firms in Germany with six offices and more than 150 lawyers, notaries and tax consultants.

Our sports practice group ASD Sports is one of the very few legal practices in the market that can claim to offer full-service legal advice to the entire sports industry. Due to the broad range of legal services provided by our lawyers, all of whom are leading advisors in their respective fields, we cover not only typical legal practice areas relevant to sport such as labour, IP, media, antitrust, association law and dispute resolution, but also more specialized areas such as real estate, M&A, tax and public law.

ATFIELD, a leading legal service provider in the sports sector in Belgium, combines the sports departments of full service law firm, Altius, and the tax law firm, Tiberghien.

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.

Brucher Thieltgen & Partners is able to tackle any type of disputes and give advice in a large panel of sports related fields such as employment law, contract negotiation, drafting of commercial contracts, transfer issues, doping-related disputes, intellectual property rights, disciplinary proceedings before sports federations, etc.

Centrefield LLP is a specialist sports practice advising clients in the sports sector across a broad range of areas, including contractual and commercial matters, regulatory and governance, disciplinary issues, (including anti-doping), immigration, employment, sponsorship/partnership arrangements, image rights, corporate, defamation, litigation and criminal law.

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

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.

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

Frankfurt Kurnit’s Sports Group represents a wide variety of clients, including leagues, teams, international governing bodies, and other rights holders; leading corporate sponsors, sports brands, marketing agencies and content distributors; and well-known athletes, coaches, sportscasters, sportswriters, executives and management companies.

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.

We have a strong cross-practice area sport sector and act for a range of different sports sector clients, from sports governing bodies, teams, athletes to other rights-holders, sponsors, agencies and media businesses.  Most recently, we were extremely proud to have been appointed as the Official Legal Advisers for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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.

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.  

Kellerhals Carrard is one of the world's leading international sports law firms. Its practice covers all areas of sports law, including disputes and commercial matters.

The Law Firm of Ingles Laurel Calderon (ILC Law) is the only Philippine law firm with a specialized and dedicated practice in sports law. ILC Law has assisted in diverse range of sports law issues, ranging from sports sponsorship and branding matters to employment issues of professional athletes.

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

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.

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

Founded in 2010 by Paolo Lombardi, formerly Head of Disciplinary and Governance at FIFA, following a decade working for football’s governing body, Lombardi Associates offer professional advice and support to football clubs, players, coaches, intermediaries, associations, regulators, and investors worldwide.

Matrix has been involved in many sports related cases since it was established 14 years ago. These cases derive from the core expertise that the set offers in a broad range of areas.

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.

Mishcon de Reya's multi-disciplinary Sports Group has acted on some of the most high profile sports matters in recent years and has a track record of delivering success for our clients. Our dedicated team of contentious and non-contentious lawyers is supported by other experts across the firm who have significant sports experience themselves in areas such as immigration, employment, brand protection, reputation management, real estate and tax. We are international in make-up and outlook – we regularly act for clients from around the world and are fluent in a number of foreign languages.

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

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP is a top 50 UK law firm which provides high quality legal advice tailored to both businesses and individuals. Our sports group provides advice across the sector, but with a strong focus on our core areas of football, individuals in sports, motor sports and e-sports.  We have a full-service sports offering, uniquely able to leverage the firm’s strength in acting for both businesses and individuals, including its renowned private wealth sector.

RPC’s Sports Group is regularly ranked highly in directories and industry publications.  We know that sport is a passion for you – it's a passion for us, too. Like you, we turn that passion into performance.

For us, a sports practice is different. It's an area where the commercial and personal elements of the work go hand in hand with the technical legal rules. That's what makes it both exciting, and rewarding.

Our core Sports Group offers specialist advice on the full spectrum of issues that touch on the world of sports and eSports, including disciplinary, governance and regulatory issues, and the full range of commercial issues (including sponsorship/endorsements, IP and brand protection, litigation, data protection, and acquisitions).

If you're a brand or sports organisation involved in a scandal and in need of advice on response strategy or the effect on agreements, we can help. If you're a sportsperson who needs guidance on allegations of corruption or other disciplinary issues, we can help with that, too. Our cross-firm team of experts provides technically skilled, commercially grounded, practical advice as a value proposition, focussed on meeting your individual objectives.

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. 

Schelstraete Equine Lawyers is an international law firm specialized in (Equine) Sports Law and is a leading force in this field. In addition, Schelstraete Equine Lawyers is founder and part of the international Alliance Group ‘European-US-Asian Equine Lawyers’, a trendsetting alliance of the world’s best Equine Law Firms

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.

Segev LLP’s dedicated Sports Law practice group of skilled and experienced lawyers have a passion for sports and a comprehensive understanding of the legal issues that affect businesses, associations, charities, and other organizations involved with professional and amateur sports.

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.

UNO | ONE LEGAL PARTNERS is a law firm founded in 2023 by Santiago Nebot and Josep F. Vandellòs after several years of working together on different cases.  It operates on a worldwide basis providing cutting-edge and bespoke legal services and advice in all matters related to the sports, media and entertainment industries at the most competitive rates.

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.