Named by both the Chambers and Legal 500 directories as one of the UK’s leading firms in both the sports, leisure and cultural sectors, we have extensive experience of all the issues that commercial sports and leisure businesses may face, from regulatory, corporate and commercial matters to sponsorship, employment and property. Our clients include agencies, charities and foundations, event management companies and operators of leisure and visitor attractions.

With our links to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), we can draw on the expertise of a wide cross-section of practitioners across the firm with knowledge of the sports, culture and wider leisure sectors. This is the key to our approach.  As a firm we can gather a range of legal expertise from a number of specialist areas to work together and offer you the most reliable, swift and cost-effective solution.

Our experience

Matters on which we have recently advised include:

• advising on the establishment of a new company to take over the event management of a major equestrian event and the associated business transfer agreement and charity and property law issues arising in the context of the deal;
• establishing, for the benefit of a major international sports event organiser, the media and broadcasting arrangements, athlete agreements, commercial participation, employment and rules for the event;
• advising on the establishment of a charitable foundation established to deliver the official international sports legacy programme for a major international event;
• advising on the corporate disposal of a major subsidiary company for a leading sports management agency;
• advising a developer of online coaching resources on its joint venture with an international sports federation to develop innovative digital resources and means of expanding the international federation’s coaching programme;
• assisting a sports organisation with the licensing of its brand to a property developer and its contribution to the development of sporting and leisure facilities within the development.

We also have experience of assisting clients in bidding to host sports events as well as advising on all the issues required to fund, manage and deliver sporting and leisure events, festivals and tournaments.

Many of our specialist lawyers sit on industry advisory boards and we continue to speak at high-profile events that shape the future of the sports and leisure industry, on subjects such as social responsibility, sponsorship and reputation management.

More information

For more information contact one of our specialist advisers below or visit our Press office.