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4 New Square Chambers
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.
Blackstone Chambers
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.
Captivate Legal & Sports Solutions
Captivate’s mission is to provide bespoke legal and sports advice, representation and training to individuals and organisations who want optimum levels of expertise and certainty to match their resources.
Centrefield LLP
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.
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
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.
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP
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.
Harbottle & Lewis LLP
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.
HCR Law
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.
Hugh James
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.
Keane Legal
Keane Legal is a leading European sports law practice located in Brussels at the heart of the European Union, providing counsel on the application of EU law to the regulatory and commercial activities of sports organizations.
Level
Level is the only ‘new law’ firm in the market which has a specific sector focus on sport, media, entertainment and technology. The specialist sports lawyers that make up the Sport team boast a client roster featuring some of the most prominent national and international federations, teams, agencies and broadcasters in the world of sport, as well as international sporting superstars.
Lewis Silkin
Linklaters
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.
Mills & Reeve LLP
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.
Northridge
Northridge is an independent law firm that focuses on the most complex and important matters in sport. Founded in 2017, it has already established itself as the firm the sports industry turns to when the stakes are highest.
Onside Law LLP
Founded in 2005, Onside Law are the pioneers of boutique sports law, with unrivalled sector knowledge and experience.
Outer Temple Chambers
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.
RPC
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.
Sheridans
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.
Wiggin LLP
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.