The leisure industry is one of the largest sectors of the world economy and clients need cross-border legal advice across a spectrum of practice areas. Our international leisure practice covers a range of industries including: travel and holiday, casinos and gaming, hotels, health clubs, day visitor attractions, cinemas and nightclubs and sport. Sport is an increasingly lucrative and dynamic element of the leisure industry, and we have a specialist sports law group to reflect this.
Our travel, leisure and sport practice has a flexible structure involving lawyers from across our practices and offices, but most significantly from
- corporate
- dispute resolution
- real estate and planning
- regulatory and disciplinary
Our work within the leisure sector involves household name clients such as lastminute.com and TUI Travel on corporate matters. Our corporate and competition teams won awards for their work with Carnival. Our real estate team has been advising Anschutz Entertainment Group on the largest leisure development in London, at the Millennium Dome, and is at the forefront of expertise in the casino development sector.
Our expertise in sports law ranges from advice on regulatory and disciplinary issues to advising on sponsorship, the exploitation of broadcasting and other rights, and acquisitions and/or restructurings of sports governing bodies. Our diverse client base includes sponsors, television companies, governing bodies, clubs, teams and individuals. Major clients include BSkyB, David Coulthard, Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, Horserace Betting Levy Board, London Development Agency and West Ham.
Our broad range of industry knowledge enables us to work with some of the leading names in global travel, leisure and sport, advising them on both domestic and cross-border issues. The group has wide-ranging experience of the sector in the UK, continental Europe and Asia. We further benefit from our alliance with Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe in Europe and from our close relationships with leading US law firms.