Sport Private
Personal and business legal services for athletes and investors
The Sports Private Group at Charles Russell Speechlys is unique in bringing together experts from our Sports and Private Client teams, whose dual strengths in these specialist areas allows us to offer individuals and investors in the sports sector a service that caters to all of their legal requirements.
Our history
We have been at the forefront of providing a holistic legal service to individuals, businesses and investors in the sports industry for over 100 years. Whether advising on domestic or international wealth structuring and family wealth issues, acquiring real estate, managing M&A deals, facilitating philanthropy, or supporting investments, we are unique in our ability to align each client’s personal wealth goals with their commercial objectives. As a result, we have become trusted advisers to multiple high-profile sports individuals and investors in the sector.
The gold standard for sports law.”
David Dein, ex-Vice Chairman of Arsenal FC
Nowhere else have a relationship team been so focused on understanding the various dimensions of our personal & business interests to the end benefit of both client and firm viewing one another clearly through a single lens."
Global Family Office client
Our Private Client services
In the fast-paced sports industry, personal ambitions are often secondary to achieving and maintaining peak professional performance. With more private client lawyers than any other firm in Europe, and strong relationships with the wider private capital advisory community, we match athletes, investors and entrepreneurs in the sports sector with the experts best suited to their working styles, personal values, current circumstances and long-term goals.
No other private wealth law firm has the scale, reach and breadth of services we offer to our private clients. With a full-service legal team, our advice is offered in the context of your succession planning, your marriage, your family life and values, your property and your assets.
Investment into sport
The business of sport has seen a period of unprecedented growth and diversification, with the surge in private investment deals driving widespread transformation across the industry. Our experts have a wealth of experience acting for organisations on both sides of sports investment transactions, from private equity firms and high-net-worth individuals looking to invest in the sector to clubs and governing bodies; and are recognised for their excellence in handling each transaction seamlessly and efficiently.
We take a more than law approach to each new investment opportunity. Operating as trusted advisors, we offer strategic and practical support to our clients, acting as an extension of a deal team, with expertise that covers the entire spectrum of sports law issues. Please do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss any of our services in further detail.
