Sports Lawyer In Spotlight: Christopher Chase

Monday, 21 March 2022 Author: Manan Agrawal, Marcos Santillana, Angelina Sanchez

For this week’s edition of Sports Lawyer In The Spotlight, we interviewed Christopher Chase who is a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz and founder of the firm’s Sports Industry Group where he practices intellectual property, advertising, sports, and entertainment law.

He works with numerous clients in the sports industry, including counselling major sports leagues on branded entertainment, intellectual property, and promotional matters; advising both sponsors and properties on the structure and negotiation of sponsorship and endorsement arrangements; counselling agency clients that activate sponsors’ marketing campaigns; advising major sports apparel, footwear and fitness companies on marketing campaigns and IP matters; and advising soccer players on transfer agreements.

Chris is also an Editorial Board member at LawInSport.

We sat down with Chris in January 2022 to conduct this interview. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

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Manan Agrawal

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Manan Agrawal

LawInSport

Manan is currently an Editor at LawInSport and is a media, entertainment and sports lawyer. Before joining LawInSport, Manan practiced law at a leading media and entertainment law firm in Mumbai, India.

He is also the organiser of LawInSport's Sports Law Arbitration Moot competition which is hosted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Marcos Santillana

Marcos is the Marketing and Editorial Associate at LawInSport.

Prior to joining LawInSport, Marcos undertook a 12-month legal internship with one of the largest anti-slavery organisations in the world, International Justice Mission, at their field office in La Paz, Bolivia. He graduated with an LLM in Commercial & Corporate law from Queen Mary University of London in 2020.

Angelina Sanchez

Angelina Sanchez is a Brooklyn Law School graduate currently residing in New Jersey. She served as an executive board member of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and her journal note discussing copyright compliance and enforcement by social media companies in an international context was published in summer 2022. She was also a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Honors Society and the 2021 UHLC National Mediation Competition champion. Prior to law school, Angelina worked in various industries including marketing, hospitality, and finance, most recently for a fin-tech company, IPC Systems, Inc. As she embarks on the next steps of her career, her focus is on intellectual property, new technology, and media.