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Sport & Esports

You’re passionate about sports - so are we. Let’s channel that shared passion to secure the best legal and commercial outcomes for you. Whether on the pitch, court, track or screen, or in the boardroom, we want to help you thrive.

Overview

Get specialist legal advice from an expert and full-service sports and esports team who understand the game.

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. 

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Joshua Charalambous

Partner

+44 20 3060 6000

London

Joshua Charalambous

Nick Lauw

Partner

+65 6422 3015

Singapore

Nick Lauw

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Jeremy Drew

Partner, Head of Commercial

+44 20 3060 6125

London

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Joshua Charalambous

Partner

+44 20 3060 6000

London

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Gavin Reese

Partner, Head of Regulatory

+44 20 3060 6895

London

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Kelly Thomson

Partner, ESG Strategy Lead

+44 20 3060 6250

London

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Oliver Bray

Senior Partner

+44 20 3060 6277

London

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Neil Brown

Partner

+44 20 3060 6823

London

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Sarah Mountain

Partner

+44 20 3060 6000

London

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Tom Purton

Partner

+44 20 3060 6724

London

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Yuankai Lin

Partner

+65 6422 3022

Singapore

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