Sports, Media and Entertainment

From grassroots clubs to Blockbuster entertainment our sports, media and entertainment lawyers are here to help you capitalise on new opportunities, maximise your assets, protect your rights, and stay onside of regulation and compliance.

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Our Experience

From negotiating commercial rights for arenas, to supporting artists to leverage value from NFTs, our Sports, Media and Entertainment lawyers are specialists in helping clients achieve their strategic aims. Our proactive approach, experience and technical understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by the sector, ensure our advice is relevant, informed and helps move clients forward.

Spanish Football Business Conference

On 30 October 2024, we held our Spanish Football Business Conference in partnership with UCFB and Tribeca Abogados. We explored topics relevant to both seasoned professionals and newcomers in the Spanish football landscape in the home of football, Wembley Stadium.

Our Clients

Our client work includes advising on:

  • Staging, advertising, image, distribution, and sponsorship rights
  •  Anti-doping and regulatory issues
  • Safeguarding
  • Stadium construction and development
  • Charities law and governance
  • Resolving disputes
  • Financing films and construction projects
  • Location agreements
  • Production contracts
  • Music and Copyright
  • Buying and selling clubs, media and entertainment companies
  • Protecting personal wealth
  • Transfers and much more

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Hear what our clients say about us

Put simply Kate and Sophie are brilliant in what they do and their and their specialist safeguarding expertise is unrivalled. Kate and Sophie’s empathetic and careful consideration of us as people, coaches, business owners was always appreciated.

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Kate and Sophie’s ability to represent us throughout the process without the need to instruct barristers reassured us that they are experienced and also allowed us to keep costs at down. Their knowledge in every aspect of the case gave us the confidence that we had the best team on board.

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As business owners as well as coaches, Kate and Sophie’s commercial approach to representing us was second to none. They understood our worries and concerns throughout and they were able to put us at ease even at very emotional times throughout the process.

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Kate and Sophie’s passion and commitment to our case was consistent throughout the entire process. Their ability to anticipate all of the issues that would arise and deal with them head on was very impressive.

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Using Kate and Sophie was the best decision that we could have made, they both helped us make an incredibly difficult time as smooth as it possibly could be. As both recreational and elite coaches, it was important for us to have specialist lawyers that understood sport and who had years of experience dealing with safeguarding investigations and Sport Resolutions contested panels.

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We are delighted with the support provided by Frank Brumby of HCR Law who worked around the clock and over the weekend alongside us.

Client testimonial Pre-pack administration of BBL champions London Lions

Thank you so much for all of your support with our transaction. Our Chair of the Building Committee and myself are so grateful for both your professionalism and for the personal commitments that you both made to support the School.

The matter required a quick resolution to ensure that the school was able to secure the facility promptly, as otherwise there was a risk they would lose their existing use of the site altogether. However thanks to the work of Morgan and James, as well as assistance from the wider team of Paul Watkins, Steve Thomas and Oliver Daniels the school was able to secure the site and the assets of the outgoing operator in a timely manner.

Bromsgrove School Sport centre acquisition

HCR has become our go-to law firm for TV and media work. We recently needed a production arrangement with a multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. We had issues across the UK and EU; the arrangements are complicated but Raj Pahuja found ways to simplify the process and then isolate key issues for negotiation.

 

Go-to law firm for TV and media work

I would like to reiterate my gratitude for all your help and guidance. It’s been a real weight off having you handle the situation, and the professionalism and efficiency of service has been exceptional.

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