Leading Sports lawyers for Athletes, Teams, Agents & Governing Bodies
Sport is about passion, brilliance and creating memories but behind every goal, touchdown, point, or race, there are contracts, agreements, regulations, visas, and legal rights that need to be carefully negotiated and drafted. At Go Legal, our sports lawyers offer dedicated sports law services from our City of London office. Our solutions are tailored to the unique challenges faced by athletes, clubs, sponsors, and governing bodies.
We regularly represent leading athletes, agents, clubs, sports teams, and governing bodies in the sports industry, and are trusted advisers of choice for many clients. Our lawyers take pride in providing unmatched technical expertise and client care. We genuinely care about your legal issues and protect your rights so you can focus on excelling in your sports career. We advise clients across a range of sports including boxing, rugby, football, tennis, cricket, motorsports and athletics.
We recognise that sports law does not operate in a vacuum and no two issues are ever the same. Therefore, if you are involved in sport our lawyers will provide fast, affordable and bespoke solutions to get the best outcome for you and your goals.
Our sports law packages have been designed by expert sports lawyers to provide you with clarity about the services you require so that you can focus on what you do best including:
Athlete & Agent Representation:
Contract Negotiation & Drafting: We understand that every deal is unique, and every contract shapes your career. From negotiating player contracts to meticulously drafting sponsorship and endorsement deals, our expert sports lawyers ensure that your interests are protected.
Career Advice & Strategic Planning: Our team offers astute career advice, leveraging a deep understanding of the sports industry and market trends. We will guide you through decisions that align with your immediate and long-term goals.
Image Rights Protection & Monetisation: Your image is more than just a face—it is a brand, an asset. Our experts ensure your image rights are robustly protected. We identify avenues for you to monetise these rights effectively. We also work with leading PR agencies to improve your reputation and digital presence. We have also launched digital agency, Go Digital to take care of all your digital and brand protection needs.
Employment Contracts: Every athlete deserves a contract that encapsulates their value, rights, and aspirations. We specialise in crafting and reviewing these contracts to ensure they reflect your unique contributions and protect your interests. Our sports lawyers are expert negotiators and will work hard to get the best deal for you to maximise your earning potential.
Intellectual Property & Dispute Resolution:
Intellectual Property: Your name or logo can be distinctive identifiers for your unique brand. We offer comprehensive services to protect these, encompassing trademarks and other rights so that you can monetise opportunities such as merchandise and brand opportunities.
Breach of Contract: Our expert lawyers have successfully resolved and settled many breach of contract disputes and disgreements. Whether it is with a club, promoter, agent or other contract, we are here to help you.
Mediation & Arbitration: Our sports lawyers are expert negotiators and can help mediate sports-related disputes, ensuring timely and fair resolutions. We also have experience with sports arbitrations, and obtaining successful outcomes when things go wrong.
Representation in Disciplinary Hearings: Our expert sports lawyers will navigate the complexities of disciplinary hearings of governing bodies with precision and assertiveness to ensure that you achieve the best outcome.
Doping Allegations and Proceedings: Our expert sports lawyers offer both preventive advice and robust representation in doping allegations and proceedings.
Event Management & Rights:
Our lawyers handle the legal aspects of organising sports events, ensuring you are compliant with all regulations and that all rights, including broadcasting and advertising, are duly protected.
We can also help negotiate deals and our lawyers often add value to deals that may have already been agreed in principle to maximise opportunities and collaboration on events.
Immigration Services:
UK Work Permits & Visas: With our expert guidance, we ensure that the process of obtaining UK work permits and immigration visas becomes smooth and hassle-free. Our team will make your transition to the UK seamless with our sister firm, Go Visa. We will take care of everything so you have peace of mind in your move.
Brexit-Related Sports Immigration Changes: Brexit has ushered in a wave of changes particularly with immigration and transfers to the UK. Our lawyers provide timely and precise guidance, ensuring you are always compliant and prepared for any change in immigration rules.
Family Members & Ancillary Services: We assist with immigration applications for family members, ensuring they too can join you in your UK journey. From application processes to any ancillary services required, we are here to help you at every stage because we are more than just lawyers.
If you want to find out more about our immigration services, please check out our dedicated immigration department, Go Visa.
Case Example – 50,000+ Breach of Contract Claim settled for Professional Boxer
Client D, a professional boxer, approached our expert sports lawyers following a disagreement with his promoter company with whom he had agreed would guarantee him 5 fights. Unfortunately, the promotion company failed to arrange any fights for him meaning he lost out on the fight purse and many sponsorship deals. We were able to secure a significant settlement for our client together with costs for his legal fees.
The client left our lawyers with the following feedback:
“Karim was diligent, always providing great, honest advice in which Karim always put my best interest at the forefront of his suggestions during the case“.
Winning Approach to Sports Law
Our sports lawyers have successfully represented several clients within the sports sector and continue to receive referrals from clients. Sport is an industry that our lawyers are passionate about. Our sports lawyers’ extensive industry-specific knowledge combined with our commitment to a results-based approach makes us the preferred choice for many clients with sports-related legal issues. We are more than just lawyers, we are your partners for a successful career.
Our lawyers are recognised among the best lawyers in England & Wales, and have regularly been asked and featured to write authoritative articles in the Financial Times, the Law Society and LexisNexis and have been quoted in City AM, the New Law Journal, Law Society Gazette and Litigation Futures.
Our specialist sports team is Partner-led to provide straightforward, honest and strategic advice. We also have a strong legal network of solicitors, barristers and experts to call upon and advise you throughout to ensure you get the best result.
We pride ourselves on our client-centric and results-driven approach, tailoring our solutions to meet the unique commercial needs of each client. Our unique approach to sports law means that we will:
- Arrange a Free Consultation with you & a qualified lawyer to discuss your sports law issue
- Arrange a WhatsApp group with you & your legal team
- Free Asset Tracer & Due Diligence
- Investigate the merits of your legal issue & create a strategy for success at the outset
- Advise you on judgments & tactics that have proved successful in other sports disputes
- Send us your case documents easily through our secure client portal, Go Transfer
- 24/7 availability for urgent matters
- Provide you with price transparency & fixed fees so that you have peace of mind throughout
- Work hard & negotiate to achieve the best outcome
Our sports lawyers offer regulated, independent & confidential legal advice and are dedicated members of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association, the London Solicitors’ Litigation Association, the Association of Cost Lawyers, the Insolvency Lawyers Association and the Commercial Litigation Association.
Alternative dispute resolution, where suitable, provides many advantages for parties involved in sports disputes. Our sports lawyers are strong advocates for mediation and it can often lead to favourable settlements. Several of our lawyers are trained mediators and expert negotiators who are registered members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and the International Mediation Institute. Our expertise in mediation gives our lawyers a significant and unique advantage when navigating settlement discussions on your behalf.
Fixed Fee & Flexible Funding Options
We provide flexible funding options including fixed fees and ‘no win no fee’ arrangements depending on the case and circumstances.
We are here to take care of all the legal issues off the field so that you can focus on excelling in sports.
If you have a legal concern, please do not hesitate to call us on 0207 459 4037 or complete our booking form below for a Free Consultation with our expert sports lawyers.
This call will be strictly confidential and will retain legal privilege. We look forward to being part of your team.
