Michael Brader

Wiggin LLP
Michael is head of the sports group at Wiggin LLP. He advises sports clients, including rights holders and sports rights management and investment companies, specifically about broadcast and new media.../ read more rights. He regularly advises on joint ventures and strategic partnerships between sports-based interests. Michael was a Partner at Olswang from 1995 and before that practised as a solicitor in Hong Kong. / close

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Professor Lorne Crerar

Harper Macleod
Professor Crerar LLB (Hons) NP is one of the founding partners of Harper Macleod and is presently its Managing Partner. He is retained by several institutions as their principal legal.../ read more advisor. Formerly a senior rugby referee, Lorne is now the Chairman of Discipline to the European Rugby Cup and Six Nations Ltd and the advisor to The Scottish Rugby Union on legal issues regarding discipline and their Discipline Panel Chairman. / close

Max Duthie

Bird & Bird, London
Max is a partner in the Sports Law Group at Bird & Bird. A former professional rugby union player, Max has many years experience advising on sports law issues in.../ read more the UK and Australia. Max has acted for governing bodies, event organisers, commercial rights holders, sponsors, clubs and individual athletes. Max has contributed to a number of publications on sports law, and has lectured on the subject at the Universities of Sydney and Liverpool. / close

Jonathan Ellis

Charles Russell LLP
Jonathan is a commercial litigator who specialises in sports law. He regularly advises the Football Association (FA) on a wide range of contentious, regulatory and disciplinary matters, and also has.../ read more considerable experience in cricket, horseracing and Formula One. Highlights include: acting for the FA in its case against Paul Stretford and in implementing the current Player Agents Regulations; acting for the Indian Premier League (IPL) in prosecuting its first ever doping case; and, advising Yorkshire Cricket Club on disciplinary matters. / close

Luca Ferrari

CBA Studio Legale e Tributario
Luca has been a partner and head of the firm's Sports and Media Department since 1997. His practice focuses on sports related business contracts and issues, regulatory and disciplinary issues,.../ read more sports labour and commercial arbitration, sports disciplinary proceedings, corporate and international commercial transactions, personal insurance, antitrust, copyright, media licensing and production contracts. / close

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Colin Graham

Regional Counsel, Nike Europe
Colin is the Regional Counsel for Nike Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joined Nike in 1997 as its first European Sports Marketing Legal Counsel working on athlete, club, federation.../ read more and league sponsorship and endorsement agreements, moving to his current role in 2001. / close

Andy Gray

British Swimming
Andy is Head of Legal Affairs, British Swimming. He advises on a broad range of commercial, disciplinary and regulatory issues. He is Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the.../ read more Sports Dispute Resolution Panel. Member of the Sports Law faculty at Kings College London. / close

Owe Hjelmqvist

Setterwalls, Sweden
Owe is a partner and head of Setterwalls Law Firms Sports, Media and Entertainment Law Department. He has acted as counsel for the media and entertainment industry in Sweden including.../ read more organisers of events, TV channels and newspaper magazines. He has also acted as counsel for the Swedish Football Association. / close

Amrut Joshi

Gamechanger Sports Ventures
Amrut is the Founder of Gamechanger Sports Ventures, a professional sports consulting firm with a presence in Bangalore, India and Singapore. Amrut has many years of experience as a sports.../ read more lawyer, during which time he has advised professional athletes, sports management companies, sports league promoters, sponsors and investors in sport. He is an expert in the Indian sports market, and has advised on sport-related litigation proceedings, player representation transactions, sports league structuring and advisory transactions, broadcast rights agreements and more. / close

Gregor Lentze

Lentze Stopper Rechtsanwälte, Germany
Gregor is founding partner of the Munich-based sports law firm Lentze Stopper Rechtsanwälte, which regularly advises various federations, clubs, sponsors and athletes commercial sports rights. Gregor was previously Managing Director.../ read more of FIFA Marketing & TV Germany and Head of Legal Affairs at FIFA Marketing AG, Zug, Switzerland. / close

Quirino Mancini

Sinisi Ceschini Mancini, Italy
Specialist areas are film and television distribution & co-production deals; legal counsel to various professional sports clubs & bodies: engagement, sponsorship, and endorsement deals; copyright and image rights; contract litigation.../ read more before labour courts, federal & industry arbitration panels. Fellow member of: International Bar Association; International Masters of Gaming Law; Sports Lawyers Association. / close

Professor Richard McLaren

University of Western Ontario
Richard is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Member of the Advisory Board Marquette University Sports Law Institute. Member of CAS..../ read more He is the Co-Chief arbitrator of the new Canadian elite performance athletes known as ADRsport Red; Arbitrator for National Hockey League salary ambitions and more recently Player Agent disputes for the NHLPlayers’ Association. Chair of the ATP Tour Anti-Doping tribunal. / close

Mike Morgan

Squire Sanders Hammonds
Mike is a solicitor in the Sports Law Group at Hammonds. He acts for governing bodies, clubs and individual athletes, advising particularly on disciplinary and regulatory matters. Mike regularly contributes.../ read more articles to sports and intellectual property law publications. / close

Warren Phelops

K&L Gates
Warren is a partner and Head of the Global Sports Practice. He specialises in business issues relating to sport: in particular rights ownership and exploitation; corporate structuring and strategy; joint.../ read more ventures; commercial; betting and gaming and media. He is co-author of the sports law bible, Butterworths: Sports Law & Practice, and is also a Director of the European Sponsorship Association. / close

Michael Stirling

Global Sponsors
Michael Stirling is retained as an advisor by many Champions League football clubs and across a number of sports. Michael regularly provides analysis for BSkyB, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV and.../ read more ITV. Michael's views have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the FT, Forbes, Newsweek and BusinessWeek. / close

Jonathan Taylor

Bird & Bird, London
Jonathan is a partner in Bird & Bird's Sports Group. Jon is co-editor of Lewis & Taylor's Sport: Law and Practice (Butterworths 2003). Jon is also Director of Studies in.../ read more Sports Law at King's College, London. / close

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Richard Verow

Sky Sports
Richard is Head of Legal - Sky Sports. He was previously a commercial lawyer for the International Cricket Council. He has worked in entertainment, media and sport and was senior.../ read more counsel for UEFA. He is author of a number of works including Jordans: Sports, Business and the Law, Butterworths: Forms and Precedents Volume 39(2): Sports and Sponsorship. / close

Trevor Watkins

Pinsent Masons
Trevor is Head of Sport at Pinsent Masons. He led the rescue and restructuring of AFC Bournemouth before becoming Chairman. He advises clients in the fields of horse racing, rugby.../ read more and motor sport. He represents sponsors, rights holders, governing bodies and investors. / close

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David Zeffman

Olswang, London
David is a partner and head of the sports practice at Olswang. He is a commercial lawyer whose sports clients include Attheraces, the British Horseracing Authority, Eurosport, FIFA and the.../ read more RFU. He has previously advised the Government on the future funding of British horseracing. / close

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