We have been advising sports clients for many years and our Sports Law Group has a particularly strong reputation in the marketplace nationally and internationally. We provide co-ordinated, specialised legal advice to sports associations, governing bodies, professionals, and companies on a wide range of issues across a variety of sports including soccer, rugby, horse racing, golf, GAA and motor sports.

Members of the Group are drawn from across the Firm and have unrivalled expertise in the full range of disciplines including intellectual property, image rights, corporate and commercial, litigation and dispute resolution, sponsorship and contracts generally, rules and regulations, employment, competition, and construction law.

Addleshaw Goddard has a long-established Sport Business Group that is widely considered to be amongst the leading practices in the country. Our experienced team of specialists has expertise in all areas of sports law and a real understanding of current sports business issues, derived from practical, hands on experience.

Ashfords has a specialist team of sports lawyers. Our expertise is primarily in horse racing and other equine disciplines, motorsport, football, cycling, cricket, boxing and rugby union. We act for individuals, clubs, team sponsors and rights holders and advise on issues arising both on and off the field of play.

Our team has a wealth of experience of sports, both as participants and as legal advisers. We believe we have the right blend of technical expertise and practical understanding of the sports industry. We act for regulators, representative bodies, sponsors, teams and participants in sports at all professional levels. Our clients range from Champion Jockeys to the British Microlight Aircraft Association.

We offer a coordinated and streamlined service to ensure that the best possible advice is given to a broad mix of clients. We act for international federations, national governing bodies, teams, sports producers and event companies, amateur clubs, individual sports stars and their agents. We advise sports at all levels of development, from grass roots initiatives, to the World Class Programme and preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond.

Our clients receive a focused, clear and comprehensive service customised to their distinct needs and requirements. Our Sport Law Group represents and advises numerous businesses and sports organisations on a daily basis in sport law issues including sponsorship agreements, product endorsement arrangements, broadcasting, personality and image rights, infrastructure projects, licensing agreements, employment contracts and freedom of movement, health and safety matters, naming rights agreements, competition law issues, equality and discrimination, event management, ambush marketing, grievance procedures, intellectual property protection and exploitation, anti-doping regulations and prosecutions, disciplinary proceedings, administration and membership issues, dispute resolution and the structuring and enforcement of sport rules and regulations.

Our top-ranked Sports Group acts for international and national sports governing bodies, event organisers, stadium operators, clubs, broadcasters, sponsors, agencies, brands and investors, as well as individual athletes.

The sports law team of James Chapman & Co joined Brabners Chaffe Street on 1 May 2006 and brought with it over 30 years' experience of advising in the area of sports. The sports law team, which is one of the country's largest, is a true market leader, both nationally and internationally. It has been setting and indeed raising the standards in the advice given to a wide variety of clients in the sporting field for over 30 years.

Sport is currently enjoying record levels of participation, popularity and commercial success. This growth has created a host of opportunities, but has also increased the number and complexity of legal issues that those involved in sport face on a daily basis. Our multi-disciplinary Sports team is recognised by clients and the legal directories as delivering a personalised and first rate service. Our expertise spans the entire spectrum of sports law. Whatever your legal requirements, you will always have a specialist on your team to advise you on how to best protect your legal and commercial position.

Clintons is one of the UK's leading suppliers of legal services to the sports world. The firm advises governing bodies, businesses and individuals active in sport. Its clients include leading individual sportsmen and women from a wide range of sports, international and domestic governing bodies, event organisers, sponsors, FIFA licensed agents, sports marketing and sponsorship consultants and sports equipment manufacturers. Through its close involvement with the advertising and marketing industry the firm has developed substantial expertise in the use of sport for marketing purposes. Clintons provides a full range of advice on contentious and non-contentious matters affecting those involved in sport, including: Contractual arrange

We have a long-standing reputation as sports lawyers, who understand the commercial issues of sports law and can make sure all parties to agreements can benefit. The links below provide more specific information, and are typical of the work we do both for commercial organisations and for individual athletes.

Based in London with an additional resource in Leeds, we act for many of the most prestigious operators in the business.

We are completely immersed in the sports, media and sponsorship sectors - we do not operate in other practice areas. This focus gives us unrivalled expertise and access to market intelligence.

The knowledge and expertise of our Sports team spans the entire industry, including mergers and acquisitions, broadcast and new media rights, creation of disciplinary systems and disciplinary disputes (including doping), intellectual property, licensing and merchandising agreements, stadium and property development, sponsorship agreements, and tax and employment issues for both clubs and individuals.

"The premier law firm," according to clients quoted in Chambers & Partners UK 2006-7, our Sports law team is the most highly regarded in the country. We are repeatedly recognised by Legal 500 UK, 2005 and Chambers & Partners UK 2005-6, both of which have ranked us in the top tier for sports law. According to Chambers & Partners UK 2006-7: "DLA is hailed for its proficiency in regulatory and broadcasting matters. One of the first ports of call for big-ticket work, the 'unbeatably strong team' is 'the best place to go for matters with a high-tech edge.'

We advise on the whole spectrum of contentious and non-contentious commercial, regulatory and personal issues affecting organisations and individuals in the sports industry. Drawing on a wealth of experience across all the issues surrounding the industry today, we provide clients with innovative, commercial and practical advice on a very wide range of issues to enable them to achieve their longer term strategic and business goals.

Fladgate has a wealth of experience within the sports sector and of advising in relation to global sporting events. Our lawyers combine a commercial approach with an ability to deliver solutions that work. Our experience encompasses a wide variety of sports and we advise on the full range of legal issues that arise. Our sports clients are drawn from the motor racing industry (including teams and drivers in Formula 1, A1 GP, World Rally, Cart, Indy Car and Moto GP), cricket, football, golf and cycling.