Clifford Chance LLP
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We have a dedicated global, cross-practice Sports Sector Group with unrivalled expertise and experience, built on 25 years of providing innovative and commercial solutions to our clients around the world. The group regularly advises on the biggest ticket issues facing sporting bodies, investors, clubs and lenders.
Across Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, we have a group of over 50 lawyers with sport industry experience and expertise. This enables us to efficiently and effectively support clients with multi-jurisdictional work and apply our global sports experience with an understanding of the locality of the matter. We are recognised for our quality across the globe with the most tier one rankings of any firm.
Clients call on us to support on a wide range of legal issues, both non contentious and contentious. This includes M&A and capital markets transactions; private equity investment, the organisation of international sports events; strategic commercial contracts; the trading of sports commercial rights; finance and infrastructure transactions; as well as regulatory and disputes work.
We have particular strength in the sector in the UK, Spain and France where we have acted on market leading mandates for some time. In the UK we are recognised by Chambers and Legal 500 for our sports expertise and the quality of our sector leads. In France we are Band 1 ranked for sports and in Spain we are regularly awarded top tier accolades for our market leading work. We have advised on the biggest mandates on behalf of the full array of market participants including clubs, governing bodies, investors, athletes, organising committees and agencies.
Our Sports Clients include:
Office Locations:
- Abu Dhabi
- Amsterdam
- Barcelona
- Beijing
- Brussels
- Bucharest
- Casablanca
- Dubai
- Düsseldorf
- Frankfurt
- Hong Kong
- Houston
- Istanbul
- London
- Luxembourg
- Madrid
- Milan
- Munich
- Newcastle
- New York
- Paris
- Perth
- Prague
- Riyadh
- Rome
- São Paulo
- Shanghai
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tokyo
- Warsaw
- Washington
Address
- Street: 10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf
- Postcode: E14 5JJ
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
Contact
- Telephone: +44 207006 2453 or +44 207006 2297
- Website: www.cliffordchance.com
Employees
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Chris Yates
Partner- +44 207006 2453
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James Cranston
Partner- +44 207006 2297
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Jamie Andrew
Senior Associate- +44(0)7773066922
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Luis Alonso
Partner- +34 91590 4147
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Neil Barlow
Partner- +1 9178614650
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Devika Kornbacher
Co-Chair, Global Tech Group and Office Managing Partner, Houston- +17138212818
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Jennifer Chimanga
Partner & Co-Head of the Africa Group- +44 20 7006 2932
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