Sports Law
Sport no longer represents merely an enjoyable recreational activity Today it accounts for a global industry worth billions of pounds.
We are able to provide expert advice and assistance on a range of commercial and regulatory issues affecting both sportsmen and women based in the UK and abroad.
Our lawyers are here to offer you sound advice and technical expertise on all of the increasingly complex challenges faced by players, clubs and governing bodies alike in today’s competitive marketplace. As an athlete, manager, director or investor we are able to offer you the services and experience of individuals immersed within the business and regulatory sectors of the sporting world and its participants.
Placing client care at the forefront of what we do, we have been successful in developing a reputation as sports lawyers, who not only understand the commercial issues involved but also succeed in providing and maintaining a personal service that is second to none.
The Sports Team is on standby twenty four hours a day, seven days a week to ensure that your needs as a professional athlete can be catered for.
Our available services include:
- Broadcast agreements.
- Transfer negotiations and Contracts.
- Intellectual property – sponsorship.
- Image rights.
- Media and entertainment.
- Sports disciplinary tribunals and hearings.
- Defamation and slander.
- Property services (including the buying and selling of your home and/or investment property).
- Tax and Wills.
- Motoring offences.
- Corporate advice.
- Charities.
- Work management.
Should you have any queries please contact Eddie Johns or Chris McCarthy in the first instance.
Both Eddie and Chris are members of the British Association for Sport and Law (BASL)