We act for a large number of professional sportspeople (including footballers, rugby players, cricketers, athletes, golfers etc), agents, managers, coaches, media personalities and other individuals advising them on:
- Image rights
- Playing contracts and transfers
- Defamation, privacy and reputation management
- Management agreements and agent issues
- Media agreements, including TV pundit/presenter and publishing agreements
- Endorsement deals
- Disciplinary and doping matters
- Dispute resolution
- Players' Agent Exam Tuition
We also arrange for our clients to have access to the best specialist practitioners available for property, estate planning / wills, matrimonial, tax and criminal matters.
Image Rights
We have developed a particular specialism in advising upon image rights structures for both UK and overseas domiciled professional footballers and sportsmen, working closely with agents, trust companies and tax advisors. Recent clients of this service include Didier Drogba, Deco, Jose Bosingwa, Andriy Shevchenko, Michael Ballack and Wayne Rooney.
Contacts: Nic Couchman, Fraser Reid
Players' Agent Exam Tuition
We also offer a tutoring service to help aspiring football agents pass the bi-annual Players' Agent Exam and obtain their FIFA agent's licence. For more information on this service, click here.
Contact: Daniel Lowen