Specialist sports contracts, media, intellectual property and rights management lawyer.
Former partner and head of intellectual property with the leading sports law firm, Townleys throughout the 1990s.
Extensive experience in developing and implementing commercial rights programmes for a large number of sports properties and events, advising on intellectual property and media rights strategies and issues in sport, negotiating sponsorship, media, licensing and endorsement contracts, and undertaking policing, litigation and enforcement actions to protect clients' rights.
Nic has a particular focus on image rights having represented a number of major players and sports bodies in structuring, exploiting and protecting their rights.
Nic's clients have included:
Rights Owners
International Olympic Committee, Formula 1 Management, Rugby World Cups 1991/1995/1999/2003, FIA, Asia Sport Group, Benfield Sports International, Fulham FC, Ascot Authority, Six Nations, International Tennis Federation, Welsh Rugby Union, European Rugby Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, Saracens RFC, England and Wales Cricket Board
Sponsors
BAT, Brittania Music, Carlsberg Tetley, Coca-Cola, Heineken, Nationwide Building Society, NEC, Nike, Nokia, News International
Others
CSI, The Licensing Company, Licensing Management International, Sport England, European Commission, Various players and athletes (including Wayne Rooney, Damien Duff and David Bedford), player associations such as the Gaelic Players Association, player agencies and sports consultancies
Nic is recommended as a leading lawyer in sport in both the recognised directories of the legal profession, Chambers and The Legal 500.
An Englishman, with a French mother and Irish wife, Nic has enjoyed switching sides in the past few years' Six Nations Rugby Tournaments
