Recent experience

A Singapore government linked company

Advising on the Singapore Grand Prix, including sponsorship arrangements with Singapore Airlines and arrangements with the race organiser and Formula One

Premiership Rugby

Advised on its eight-year Professional Game Agreement with the RFU for the management and funding of English professional club rugby 

Premier Rugby (the administrative body behind England’s top-division professional competition for rugby union)

Advised in connection with its broadcasting contract with BT Sport, alongside the creation of a new European Rugby competition 

The Australian Rugby Union (ARU)

Advised on all aspects of its business, including on its 'collective bargaining agreements' between Australian Rugby, Australian 'Super Rugby' unions and the Rugby Union Players' Association; constitutional and corporate governance issues and contracts with commercial agents, sponsors and suppliers; advising on World Rugby Corporation's attempt to recruit Australian rugby players to play professional rugby; drafting and interpreting the International Rugby regulation; and developing the first Australian professional player contract

English Football League (EFL)

Advised the English Football League (EFL), as Europe’s largest professional football representative body secured a £117.5m loan fund to help Championship clubs meet PAYE liabilities during the coronavirus pandemic

AEG

Advised on every aspect of the £3.5 billion transformation of the Millennium Dome and surrounding 40 acres on Greenwich Peninsula into the O2 Arena and entertainment district since 2000 

Key contacts

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Dylan Doran Kennett

Partner, Head of Venture and Growth Capital, EMEA, London

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Neil Blake

Partner, Head of Sport, London

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Justina Zhang

Partner, Kewei, Mainland China and Beijing

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George Psaltis

Senior Associate, Sydney