SERVICES

Sport

IPS Law’s Sports clients include Premier League Football Clubs, Championship Football Clubs senior international football and rugby players, international cricketers and golfers, as well as rights holders, sponsors, event organisers, promoters and agents.

We have unparalleled expertise in providing positive, pragmatic and commercial advice on matters including:

Commercial

  • Shirt Sponsorship Agreements and technical kit supply agreements.
  • Commercial partnership agreements.
  • Brand licensing and merchandising agreements.
  • Inter club co-operation agreements.
  • Electronic turnstile operation agreements.
  • Payment card and managed transaction service agreements.
  • Media content development agreements and media optimisation agreement.
  • Player Transfers
  • Player transfers & Contracts
  • Agent Representation Contracts.
  • Compromise agreements.
  • Image rights structures.
  • Regulatory Advice

We have extensive knowledge of the rules of the Premier League, the Football League, the Football Association and FIFA Regulations as well as regulatory bodies in many other sports and advice in relation to FA’s Agents Regulations.

  • FA Premier League’s Deed of Licence.
  • Disciplinary matters.
  • Doping investigations.
  • EU and UK competition issues.
  • Dispute Resolution

In addition to extensive experience in relation to UK High Court and County Court litigation, we have extensive experience in cases involving:-

  • Premier League Hearings.
  • Court of Arbitration for Sport.
  • Arbitration Proceedings.
  • Mediation hearings.
  • Employment Tribunals.

Entertainment

IPS Law’s clients include recording artists, record labels, TV personalities and managers. Our extensive entertainment and media experience includes providing advice in relation to the following areas:

Music

  • Recording Agreements.
  • Management Agreements.
  • Publishing Agreements.
  • Distribution Agreements.
  • Management agreements between artists and managers.
  • Merchandise agreements
  • Touring agreements for live bands.
  • Agreements for events including music festivals and film premiers.
  • Commission agreements for composers of music for film and TV productions.
  • Copyright and rights disputes.

Television

  • TV presenter/pundit agreements.
  • Personal service contracts for TV and radio broadcasting.
  • Endorsement agreements.
  • Media
  • Pre-publication advice.
  • Defamation.
  • Rights protection.
  • Book publishing agreements and literary agent agreements for writers.
  • New media agreements for internet and mobile devices.

Property

IPS Law’s clients include recording artists, record labels, TV personalities and managers. Our extensive entertainment and media experience includes providing advice in relation to the following areas:

We pride ourselves on our:-

  • Quality and efficient service delivered with a personal touch.
  • Dependable and pragmatic advice which is carefully considered paying close attention to detail and conveyed in a clear and concise manner.
  • Communication and negotiation skills.

Our services include:-

  • Buying and selling.
  • Lettings for both landlords and tenants and other related management work which include consents for alterations; assigning a lease, subletting.
  • Financing.
  • General property issues which include rights over property eg rights of way, rights to connect to services and releasing of restrictive covenants, dealing with flying freeholds, unregistered titles, neighbour’s rights.