Private Equity

We have a dedicated global, cross-practice Sports Sector Group that are long-standing advisers within the Entertainment and Sports sector, providing innovative and commercial solutions to our clients around the world. The group regularly advises on the biggest ticket issues facing sporting bodies, investors, clubs and lenders. With the rapid recent growth in the sector, we are adept at navigating the increasing complexity.

Across Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, we have a group of over 50 lawyers with sport industry experience and expertise. This enables us to efficiently and effectively support clients with multi-jurisdictional work and apply our global sports experience with an understanding of the locality of the matter. We are recognised for our quality across the globe with the most tier one rankings of any firm.

We advise key stakeholders and investors in the fast-growing Entertainment & Sports sector. They turn to us for legal insight and our multi-jurisdictional experience. Clients call on us to support on a wide range of legal issues, both non contentious and contentious. This includes M&A and capital markets transactions; private equity investment, the organisation of international sports events; strategic commercial contracts; the trading of sports commercial rights; finance and infrastructure transactions; as well as regulatory and disputes work. Our clients include media businesses, governing bodies, broadcasters, financial investors and major clubs and sports organisations.

We have particular strength in the sector in the UK, Spain and France where we have acted on market leading mandates for some time. In the UK we are recognised by Chambers and Legal 500 for our sports expertise and the quality of our sector leads. In France and Spain we are Band 1 ranked for sports and regularly awarded top tier accolades for our market leading work. We have advised on the biggest mandates on behalf of the full array of market participants including clubs, governing bodies, investors, athletes, organising committees and agencies.

The sports industry is one of the most thrilling sectors and provokes a multitude of passion, opinions and excitement for everyone involved. The opportunities and challenges are far-reaching and diverse. We at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer help businesses navigate the sector in order to help our clients thrive in the complex and rapidly changing landscape.