Sports Law

Sports Law

Sports law is a wide ranging and diverse legal discipline relying on the selective application of a combination of different skills. Our sports law team is a multi-disciplinary team that acts for a range of sporting governing bodies, clubs and individual sports athletes on a wide range of legal matters.

Supporting the sports industry 

Our non-contentious work includes constitutional and regulatory matters, commercial contracts, licensing and merchandising agreements, sponsorship agreements, and rights management and exploitation.

Our dispute resolution and regulatory work includes appearing on behalf of sporting bodies and individuals before sports' regulatory bodies, sports' tribunals, Sport Resolutions (UK) (formerly the Sport Dispute Resolution Panel) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

arrow Sports disputes and regulatory matters
Sports disputes, disciplinary and regulatory matters for sports governing bodies, sports clubs and individual athletes.
arrow Sports non-contentious constitutional, regulatory and contractual matters
Drafting of constitutions for sporting bodies and membership organisations, rules (including disciplinary rules), drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and advising on members’ issues.
arrow Sports intellectual property, commercial and media rights
Non-contentious sports matters including media rights, sponsorship, licensing, event organisation, brand rights and management.
arrow Sports related services
Issues relating to a wide range of matters including property, employment, corporate finance and tax.

Latest news...

Wright Hassall acted on behalf of the BEF at CAS in their successful appeal to reverse the original decision to relegate Britain from the Nations Cup. The team's win at the Hickstead leg of the competition on Friday 29 July 2010, guaranteed the British Showjumping team place in the 2011 Nations Cup. Read more...

Legal 500 2011

Wright Hassall LLP’s service is ‘first class; the advice is always practical and protects the legal interests of clients’. The firm acts for individuals and governing bodies such as the British Show Jumping Association. Richard Lane and Stuart Cutting are the key contacts, and Mark Lewis ‘responds promptly to any contact’.
For a no-obligation chat about sports law and how we can support you, please contact Stuart Cutting, Mark Lewis or Richard Lane.