Harbottle & Lewis

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Harbottle & Lewis is regarded as one of the country’s premier sports law practices and regularly advises agents and professional athletes on a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters, including:

  • Athlete representation agreements
  • Endorsement and sponsorship agreements
  • Image rights exploitation
  • Merchandising
  • Advertising (inc. online/via social media)
  • Player contracts
  • Disciplinary matters
  • Doping
  • Participation and selection issues
  • Privacy and defamation

Our sports lawyers regularly work alongside other specialist lawyers within the firm, including our tax, employment, family and reputation management experts, to provide a comprehensive, all-round service to our clients.

We have extensive experience working with both well-established athlete representation agencies and emerging businesses. We have advised many of the larger agencies since they were first established and we also enjoy working with energetic entrepreneurs and start-ups, providing our experience and know-how to help guide agents through the various stages of setting up and developing their businesses – which includes getting the right agreements in place.

You will find that we are passionate about rugby and the sports industry as a whole and we enjoy getting to know our clients and helping them to achieve their objectives. We work hard to deliver a professional service and high quality legal advice, whilst also being innovative in the way that we provide our services so that we can provide excellent value for money to our clients.

DEALS FOR ARA MEMBERS

Members of the ARA are entitled to a free 30 minute initial consultation with Michael or Bob and a 20% discount on our fees.

CONTACT

Michael Lister and Bob Mitchell are the main contacts for the ARA and its members.

Michael can be contacted at michael.lister@harbottle.com or on 020 7667 5155. Please follow the link to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Bob can be contacted at bob.mitchell@harbottle.com or on 020 7667 5157. Please follow the link to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Homepage of H&L website: www.harbottle.com

Sports Group Page of H&L webpage: http://www.harbottle.com/sport/