Sports Lawyer In The Spotlight: Mark Hovell

Monday, 28 March 2022 Author: Manan Agrawal, Marcos Santillana, Will Quaranta, Angelina Sanchez

For this week’s edition on Sports Lawyer In The Spotlight, we sat down with Mark Hovell, who is a partner at Mills & Reeve and heads up their sports practice. He specialises in regulatory, governance, commercial and financial matters, across all sports, both in the UK and across the world.

He is an experienced CAS Arbitrator (Court of Arbitration For Sport) and has adjudicated nearly 400 cases as a CAS arbitrator. He was part of the CAS Ad-hoc panels at the Rio Olympic Games 2016. He’s a member of the National Anti-Doping Panel, back in the UK.

Mark is also an Editorial Board member at LawInSport.

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Manan Agrawal

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Tags: Career Advice | Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) | Dispute Resolution | Doping | Football | Insolvency | Regulation & Governance | Sports | United Kingdom (UK)

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Manan Agrawal

LawInSport

Manan is currently an Editor at LawInSport. Before joining LawInSport, Manan practiced law at a leading media and entertainment law firm in Mumbai, India. Manan has been a part of LawInSport's inaugural Academy Mentoring Scheme and was mentored by LawInSport CEO and Founder, Sean Cottrell.

Marcos Santillana

Marcos is the Marketing and Editorial Associate at LawInSport.

Prior to joining LawInSport, Marcos undertook a 12-month legal internship with one of the largest anti-slavery organisations in the world, International Justice Mission, at their field office in La Paz, Bolivia. He graduated with an LLM in Commercial & Corporate law from Queen Mary University of London in 2020.

Will Quaranta

Will Quaranta is a third-year student at Notre Dame Law School, currently studying at the Notre Dame London campus. In addition to his law degree, Will is set to graduate with a master’s in innovation and entrepreneurship from Notre Dame Graduate School. Prior to law school, he worked as a blockchain consultant at IBM, and he will be returning home to New York upon graduation to work at Jones Day.

Angelina Sanchez

Angelina Sanchez is a Brooklyn Law School graduate currently residing in New Jersey. She served as an executive board member of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and her journal note discussing copyright compliance and enforcement by social media companies in an international context was published in summer 2022. She was also a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Honors Society and the 2021 UHLC National Mediation Competition champion. Prior to law school, Angelina worked in various industries including marketing, hospitality, and finance, most recently for a fin-tech company, IPC Systems, Inc. As she embarks on the next steps of her career, her focus is on intellectual property, new technology, and media.