Captivate Legal & Sports Solutions.

Commercial
- Drafting and advising on commercial contracts for a leading provider of sophisticated data-driven software to the global sports betting and lottery sectors.
- Drafting and negotiating a memorandum of understanding between national governing bodies of a sport.
- Drafting a public relations services framework agreement for an airline.
- Advising a high net worth individual on a design contract for his new apartment.
- Marking-up and drafting large sections of a software licence and maintenance agreement.
Dispute Resolution
- Representing an athlete in a selection dispute in wrestling for the 2014 Commonwealth Games before Sport Resolutions.
- Representing an athlete in an appeal against funding being withdrawn in swimming before Sport Resolutions.
- Advising a UK ice hockey player on his appeal against an 8 year ban for two doping violations.
- Advising an international heavyweight boxer on his application for a therapeutic use exemption under the WADA Code.
- Advising on the law relating to restraint of trade clauses and interim injunctions and the discretion in both sporting regulations and the civil law.
- Advising on the relationship between the Arbitration Act and the court’s jurisdiction.
- Representing a boxing promoter and manager in high profile regulatory hearings and commercial litigation including libel and defamation issues.
Governance, Integrity & Compliance
- Participating in a mock dawn raid as part of compliance training for a client.
- Delivering workshop session on good governance for INTERPOL/FIFA at their match-fixing events around the world.
- Being part of an emergency Ethics Panel for an international sports federation.
- Producing a risk assessment, intelligence protocol and investigation action plan for a national sports governing body regarding betting, integrity and match-fixing.
- Non-executive director of the British Volleyball Federation responsible for legal and governance matters.
- Non-executive director of Sports Officials UK.
Intellectual Property
- Advising an estate agency on an IP coexistence agreement.
- Drafting numerous trade mark applications, licences and assignments across various sectors.
- Managing a trade mark portfolio for a private equity house across numerous territories.
- Representing a major animation and film studio in litigation as defendant to a claim for copyright infringement and breach of confidence.
- Drafting cease and desist letters and associated undertakings.
- Advising an overseas manufacturer of toys on the similarity of designs made by an alleged counterfeiter based in the UK.
- IP due diligence for corporate deals.
- Advising on trade mark and passing off claims by various retailers.
Policy & Advisory
- Writing a report on international and European sports policy for the Council of Europe and delivered it at their Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport meeting.
Regulatory & Competition
- Advising on both FIFA's Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players and Disciplinary Code.
- Part of an emergency Ethics Panel for an international sports federation.
- Amending a sports governing body's disciplinary procedures and regulations and delivering training on the changes.
- Advising the purchaser of a football club on the regulations relating to international loan transfers. Advising professional football clubs on buy-out clauses, image rights and bridge transfers.
- Advising whether a prize promotion associated to the sponsorship of a major sporting event was a regulated activity under gambling legislation.
- Analysing a bond prospectus documents highlighting any possible competition issues.
- Drafting sections of submissions to the national regulator for a competition investigation into extended warranties.
- Acting for an international publisher regarding the US, UK and EU competition investigations into eBooks.
- Advising arbitrage clients on competition issues for companies which they have invested in.
- Analysing and compiled share of supply merger control regimes in the EU.
- Drafting advice in relation to what actions can and cannot be taken by staff during a national competition regulator’s investigation.
Training & Education
- Delivering training for FIFPro (the world football players’ union) in the Netherlands as part of their Executive Education Programme.
- Visiting Fellow at Edge Hill University delivering an annual lecture and collaborating on a social media and sport project.
- Lecturer and previously module leader for the Sport Legal Environment & Broadcasting masters module at Coventry University, Business School.
- Former Football Association referee tutor.
- Guest lecturer at the University of Miami on European Sports Law.
- Presentations delivered in the United States, Russia, Switzerland, Hungary, India, Fiji, South Africa, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and France.

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