Sport & Esports

Our lawyers advise across all aspects of the sports and esports ecosystems, with clients including international and national governing bodies, sports competitions and leagues, professional clubs and teams (across a range of sports and esports titles), brands and sponsors, players/athletes, media companies and platforms, esports titles, event organisers, sports data companies, agencies, retailers, and brand management companies.

Our full-service offering sees us support clients on a diverse range of matters including regulatory, governance and disciplinary matters (including safeguarding) in sports and esports, commercial, sponsorship, media rights, broadcast and data content acquisition and distribution, IP and brand protection, litigation and arbitration, advertising and marketing, data protection, employment, and corporate transactions. 

We are passionate about sport's ability to make a difference, and are proud supporters of the Sport Industry NextGen programme which is a prestigious professional development programme that provides the best emerging talent in our industry with a tailored year-long leadership package and which has a particular focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and social impact.  We are proud to have been the legal advisers on two of the most important projects creating a sustainable and investable proposition for women's sport in the UK – acting for the Women's Super League and Women's Championship clubs collectively in the formation of a NewCo to own and operate the women's professional game in football in the UK, and acting for the founding clubs in Premiership Women's Rugby (PWR) which has launched as the leading domestic women's club rugby competition in the world.