Sport

Sheridans has a respected sports practice with a dedicated offering in the digital market and extensive contacts throughout the football world, with further expertise across a diverse range of sports including basketball, tennis and e-sports. It acts for a mixture of governing bodies, clubs, and broadcast and media rights holders on regulatory and commercial matters. Also assists a number of individual players on contractual and commercial arrangements.

"Sheridans has a deep bench and, when it comes to sports rights and associated issues, is truly expert. The lawyers are focused on client service and satisfaction."

"Sheridans provide a service of exceptional quality and are always able to respond to our timeframes and issues without hesitation."

"Sheridans represents clients across the sports law ambit. Their sports team is adept at pooling together resources from across the firm in order to create winning strategies."

"A super close-knit, responsive, down-to-earth group. They are a very strong team that intersects sport, media and entertainment - a small team but all are very efficient, responsive and approachable."

"They are able to distil complex issues with ease and at pace. I have been impressed with their advice on nuanced matters in a way that is comprehensible to stakeholders within my organisation."

The Sheridans team performed an audit of a leading Premiership Rugby club’s safeguarding policies benchmarking these against RFU, World Rugby and best-in-class safeguarding procedures from other sports. Following review, the club and foundation’s safeguarding, transport and streaming policies were rewritten to provide a suite of robust policies which address the club and foundation’s on- and off-pitch safeguarding responsibilities and risk mitigation strategies.

Andrew Nixon handles a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious commercial and regulatory sports matters. He has a particularly strong reputation for his work in the e-sports sector. "Andrew is keen to ensure client satisfaction, always available and very experienced in his field." "Andrew really gets the world that we operate in - who the movers and shakers are, what the art of the possible is, what restrictions we operate under and what our opportunities are." "Andrew is an authority on sports law and a master of litigation strategy. He knows how to pitch ideas and push arguments." "Andrew is a highly experienced, skilled solicitor who knows my organisation and the wider sports sector inside out. He's always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that we receive the best advice."

Daniel Geey is an experienced presence in football, having acted on a series of high-profile player transfers, endorsements and club takeovers. "He's fast becoming a lawyer icon. Dan's knowledge of sports law and regulation is only eclipsed by the time he gives both to clients and to those looking to enter the sports law profession." "Daniel is excellent all round, I could not recommend highly enough."