Securing sports projects and supporting sector stakeholders
Professional and institutional sport has become an economic sector in its own right — with its own value-creation dynamics, governance models, financing issues and regulatory and reputational risks. Media rights, investments in clubs, sports infrastructure and the commercial exploitation of competitions: the amounts at stake and the complexity of transactions have profoundly changed the legal demands of the sector.
We advise clubs, federations, leagues, event organisers, investors, local authorities and professional athletes on structuring, securing and defending their projects in France and internationally.
Our ambition is to enable sports-sector stakeholders to develop their projects with legal certainty, operational visibility and control of the risks specific to a sector that is both highly exposed and highly competitive.
A pragmatic approach grounded in the realities of sport
Sports law is not practised like any other area of business law. It involves specific regulations, sector-specific disciplinary bodies, particular contractual balances and media and reputational issues that can shift within hours.
We work alongside our clients to structure their transactions, secure their contracts, anticipate disciplinary and regulatory risks and defend their interests in highly exposed environments.
Sports contracts, media rights, federation governance, corporate transactions, infrastructure, commercial partnerships and disputes: we build responses adapted to the economic and operational realities of each stakeholder, with a precise understanding of sports ecosystems and the constraints specific to each discipline.
Areas of practice
- Sports contracts and image rights agreements
- Federation law and sports governance
- Disciplinary proceedings and sports disputes
- Media rights and commercial exploitation of competitions
- Sports infrastructure and public facilities
- Sponsorship, partnerships and advertising
- Corporate law and corporate transactions in the sports sector
- Sports taxation
- Intellectual property and image rights
- Mediation and dispute resolution
A coordinated cross-practice approach
Sports projects rarely involve a single legal dimension. An investment in a club simultaneously engages corporate law, tax and sports law. A media rights negotiation involves intellectual property, contract law and federation regulations. A sports infrastructure project requires public law, real estate and finance expertise, often within very tight timetables.
Our cross-practice organisation allows us to activate the required expertise without delay and to act coherently on matters whose complexity often goes beyond the sole scope of sports law.
Long-term client relationships
The sports sector evolves quickly — regulations are becoming stricter, economic models are changing, and governance and compliance issues are increasingly important. Our clients need advisers who can anticipate these developments and support them over the long term — not only in moments of crisis or litigation.
We support clubs, federations, investors and institutional stakeholders over time in managing their strategic and operational issues, with continuous monitoring of regulatory and case law developments specific to the sports sector.
Our commitment as lawyers
Our commitment as lawyers means supporting stakeholders in a demanding and highly exposed sector with the technical rigour, responsiveness and understanding of sports ecosystems that make the difference.
Recognition
