Sport

Legal services tailored for sport industry clients including players, athletes, clubs, agents, managers, governing bodies, broadcasters, digital platforms, media rights owners and event organisers.

We boast a client roster featuring some of the most prominent national and international federations, teams, agencies and broadcasters in the world of sport, as well as international sporting superstars.

The high-profile, cutting edge matters upon which the Sports team has acted recently includes representing the player in what is arguably English football's most high‑profile player disciplinary case in decades, advising FIFA on its media rights deals for the FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup and advising on over 200 player transfers and new contracts in the Summer 2024 transfer window alone.

Expertise

the sports team

Whereas many are founded on the practices of a handful of senior lawyers, Level’s sports law team consists of seventeen specialist Partners, in addition to our outstanding Managing Associate lawyers, Jonathan Hyman, Will Thorman and Leanne Grindrod​​, Junior Associate Yvie Seville, trainee solicitor Georgia Wray and football paralegal Finley Davis.

Specialist lawyers

Level Law are not just first-class lawyers – they're also smart businesspeople who fully understand not just legal complexities but also commercial reality.

Legal 500 2025

We have worked with Level Law for over ten years now. Their collective knowledge of the sports industry is absolutely vital to our business, and they are always our first point of call when we need legal services. The team at Level Law are not only professional and knowledgeable, they are all extremely personable and as such, always a pleasure to deal with.

Legal 500 2024

No matter the time or situation, Level will do their very best to promptly attend to any matter.

Legal 500 2024

Level Law has very significant expertise in media rights, which combined with strong commercial outlook, makes for a great a legal service provision.

Legal 500 2024

All members of the team are excellent.

Chambers & Partners 2024

Level are extremely competent and flexible. The team is able to deal with a wide range of matters.

Chambers & Partners 2024

Level has a really good senior team.

Chambers & Partners 2024
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