Regulatory

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.

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.

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.

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.

At Bird & Bird, we are truly passionate about what we do. In London we have a large team of lawyers dedicated exclusively to sports work, allowing some to be specialist contentious sports lawyers and others to be specialist non-contentious sports lawyers.

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.

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 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.

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.

As a trailblazer in the field of sports law in Asia, Field-R has nearly 20 years of experience providing highly-specialized services to Japanese and international clients.

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.

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.

Global Sports Advocates is an internationally recognized law firm solely dedicated to the practice of sports law. Having represented clients from more than 60 different countries and more than 60 different sports, Global Sports Advocates has seen and done it all for international sports stakeholders from professional, collegiate, and Olympic athletes to coaches, teams, and governing bodies.

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 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 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. 

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Parmars is an international sports law and business consultancy focused on helping governing bodies, clubs, agencies and players and athletes across from football, futsal, Esports, volleyball, athletics boxing, tennis and cricket many other sports. 

We provide bespoke practical advice and training on a range of matters involving sports law and business, including contentious and non-contentious issues, reputation and crisis management, business development.

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 Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP Sports Law Practice Group offers market leading experience and expertise in the legal, commercial and regulatory issues affecting the sports industry around the globe.

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.

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.