Sports

Your content, intellectual property, and brand aren’t just creative assets – they are critical to your success. They also involve complex legal and commercial risks that can affect growth, revenue, and control. We partner with stakeholders across the entertainment, media, and sports ecosystem to help you structure, protect, and maximize the value of what you create.

Our work is grounded in deep industry knowledge built through representing media and entertainment companies – including film, television, and music studios – as well as sports teams and leagues, athletes, talent, and investors. When shaping legal strategy, we consider how the relationships among these stakeholders influence negotiations, strategic opportunities, and value creation.

Our media, entertainment, and sports lawyers deliver commercially focused guidance aligned with how the industry operates. We advise on the full spectrum of matters that impact your creative assets and business operations, including:

• Transactions, financings, and growth: Support your acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, financings, management buyouts, and other strategic transactions.
• Intellectual property and commercial agreements: Advise you on intellectual property strategy; image rights; branding; licensing; sponsorships; endorsements; name, image, and likeness (NIL) matters; and complex commercial agreements.
• Regulatory, investigations, and disputes: Advise you on regulatory challenges, investigations, antitrust scrutiny, enforcement actions, and sensitive commercial disputes.
• Real estate and venue development: Help you navigate acquisitions, development, leasing, financing, construction, and other venue-related real estate matters.
• Workforce management: Advise you on employment agreements, labor relations, executive compensation, workplace compliance, investigations, and employment disputes.
• Privacy and cybersecurity: Counsel you on data protection, incident response, privacy compliance, and evolving cybersecurity obligations.
• Tax planning and structuring: Deliver strategic tax planning and structuring across your transactions, financings, operations, and estate matters.

Media, entertainment, and sports businesses operate in interconnected markets that are constantly evolving. Our lawyers align legal strategy with business goals, helping you protect and monetize your creative assets, capitalize on strategic opportunities, and drive long-term enterprise value.

Energy and infrastructure projects sit at the intersection of capital, regulation, operations, and political risk. Our energy law team helps you navigate these pressures so you can deploy capital strategically. We partner with you to structure projects and investments that deliver value under changing market conditions, evolving energy policy, and shifting regulatory demands.

Our energy law team includes more than 70 lawyers worldwide. We help you operate in complex energy markets by integrating regulatory, financing, transactional, tax, and operational capabilities under a single platform. Our lawyers guide you through every stage of your energy and infrastructure project – from origination and financing through acquisition, development, construction, operation, and long-term asset management.

We help investors, developers, lenders, and operators structure and execute critical transactions across global markets. Our energy lawyers advise on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project development, financing, project finance, commodities and trading matters, and strategic investments that span both conventional and renewable energy sectors. Our legal guidance is informed by the commercial realities of how stakeholders work together to finance, develop, optimize, and transition energy assets.

To support value creation and keep your projects moving forward under evolving market conditions, we help you maintain compliance with regulatory frameworks and manage operational and financial exposure. We leverage our global platform to guide you through regulations across jurisdictions while maintaining a consistent commercial and legal strategy.

Our team has deep experience guiding transactions in Africa – a leading market for renewable energy investment and infrastructure development. We help you navigate complex civil and common law requirements in 45 countries across the region, working closely with local partners to manage the geopolitical and operational risks that can impact project success.

With experience in how energy markets operate, we know where energy and infrastructure deals typically encounter friction. We draw on these insights to help you structure and close transactions that comply with regulations and deliver long-term value throughout the life cycle of your project or investment.