Sports law

The Sports Group at Davies Arnold Cooper consists of a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers. 

We advise professional clubs, governing bodies, individual athletes and sports agencies across a broad range of sports including: football, rugby union, rugby league, cricket, tennis, motor racing, horse racing, athletics, boxing and judo.

With offices in London, Manchester and Madrid we are well placed to provide sports law services across some of the primary sporting cities in the world. We are recognised by the Legal 500 'The Clients' Guide to the Legal Profession' as one of the leading sports practices' in the North West.

Our sports lawyers achieve results through a deep understanding of the commercial and legal issues at play in the sports sector. Our full range of services include:

• Employment and contractual issues
• Commercial dispute resolution
• Sports injury
• Sponsorship agreements
• Arbitration, litigation and mediation
• Corporate restructuring, finance and tax
• Sports stadium development and 2012 procurement
• Broadcast, media and image rights
• Insurance and professional indemnity
• Disciplinary disputes (including doping matters)
• Intellectual property
• Licensing, copyright.trademarks and merchandising agreements