HCR Law

HCR Law has over 800 people across England and Wales, providing city-quality legal services to individuals and businesses across the southwest, the West Midlands, Wye Valley and Thames Valley corridors. We provide exceptional customer service, tailoring our expertise to individual client’s needs. We work with clubs and organisations that operate locally to our offices, whether they are at grassroots level or big household names.  

Our sports specialists comprise commercial, IP, tech, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, private client, charities and regulatory experts. Fighting your corner in disputes, covering your back in new markets, and getting you into pole position for change, growth, or sale – our multidisciplinary project teams are geared up to help you tackle all of your challenges at once.

We have acted across sports law in a range of different areas including rugby clubs (salary caps and regulation), equine (including dressage), governing bodies, events and leisure service operators (sub- contractors). In addition, our specialist charities team have advised clubs and associations on a range of legal issues, including funding and compliance with the charity commission.

We act for a broad range of sports clubs, agents, athletes, governing bodies, organising committees, sponsors and rights holders. Our advisory team is passionate about sport, so their legal expertise is grounded in an understanding of what our clients care about too – helping them move forward when faced with a potential issue, or opportunity for growth.

From grass roots to premiership, local to international, and from individuals to Olympic teams, we have the experience you need. We take legal and compliance headaches away so you can focus on getting back to winning. We’ll protect your performance with robust legal counsel, rooted in a passion for the game. Our experience supporting athletes, clubs, sponsors, and organisers – from grassroots to global level – will give you a formidable teammate, whoever the opponent.

HCR Flex is a cost-effective and flexible way to get access to our Commercial lawyers, designed to supplement or complement your in-house counsel team or to use as an alternative. This alternative method of packaging our legal services moves you away from project by project, ‘hourly rates’ advice and gives you access to the commercial legal expertise you need, on secondment with you, allowing you to control costs. Read more HERE.