Armstrong Teasdale LLP

Armstrong Teasdale’s experienced team has been at the forefront of the development of sports law. The sports team collectively has over 50 years’ experience providing sport related legal advice and has led ground-breaking work involving complex litigation on issues such as competition, ticketing and brand infringement in addition to all aspects of commercial, intellectual property and regulatory law in the sports sector.

The firm is recognised as being one of the leading law firms in ticketing, which underpins the funding of sports events. The team have been actively involved in developing legislation targeting ticket touting for example and acting for the leading governing bodies and events in football, rugby, horse racing, cricket, cycling, athletics, motor racing and tennis on ticketing related matters. The team’s wealth of experience provides additional intelligence for its clients in their campaigns against ticket touts and unofficial hospitality and ticket agencies.

As a result of the firm’s dynamic and flexible client centered approach, the team has developed an outstanding portfolio of clients including some of the most prominent sports events (such as Wimbledon, Ryder Cup, London Marathon, Prudential RideLondon), governing bodies (UEFA, RFU, ECB) and individual sports talent.