Our sports lawyers advise investors, teams, leagues and rightsholders across the global sports ecosystem, pairing expert transactional capability with market-leading disputes and regulatory experience.

Our transactional team provides counsel on complex M&A, investments and financing, intellectual property, branding, media and entertainment licensing, employment, tax, real estate, and antitrust, competition and state aid. This breadth allows us to deliver integrated, practical advice on club and league investments, sales, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, long-term commercial partnerships, and the full spectrum of rights commercialization in broadcasting, licensing, sponsorship and direct-to-consumer and OTT distribution.

Our disputes team advises on high-stakes litigation, arbitration, investigations, and regulatory strategy across multiple jurisdictions. This team has acted in more than one hundred arbitrations before specialist sports tribunals, including the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and routinely handles key mandates for major sports bodies, sporting organisations and other leading players in the industry.

Our partners bring practical industry perspective to every mandate, including a former Premier League team chairman and arbitrators who have served on numerous sports arbitrations. That experience - combined with our global platform and a broad client base spanning investors, federations, leagues, teams, broadcasters, sponsors and technology companies - gives us a comprehensive view of the issues that matter most, and the judgment to help our clients move forward with clarity and confidence - on and off the field.