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Wigan Athletic football club enters administration amid 'significant impact' of coronavirus pandemic: Karish Andrews comments for City A.M.
02 July 2020Wigan Athletic has entered administration following the “significant impact” of the coronavirus pandemic on the football club’s finances. Karish Andrews comments for City A.M. on how the Covid-19 crisis was always going to cause great difficulty for football clubs that rely heavily on match day revenue.
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Sports Q&A - What data protection issues do we need to consider before testing athletes for COVID-19?
05 June 2020The Premier League has started to test players and others as part the league's "Project Restart", prompting clubs and other bodies of many sports to ask if/how they should follow suit.
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What are clubs legal remedies if leagues are extended or decided against their wishes?
14 May 2020In this article, John Mehrzad QC, Head of Littleton Chambers’ Sports Law Group, John Shea, Senior Associate in Lewis Silkin’s Sport Business Sector Team and Doug Harmer, Partner at Oakwell Sports Advisory give their expert legal and loss quantification opinions about legal remedies available to Premier League and English Football League (“EFL”) clubs adversely affected by the range of decisions that could be taken to conclude the 2019/20 season such as extending the season beyond 1st June, playing matches at neutral venues, terminating the season early and/or determining league positions based on new formulas such as a points per game basis.
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I didn’t sign up for this! Can parties escape obligations when the deal changes?
27 April 2020It is estimated that 20% of the world’s population is living under some form of lockdown as various governments roundly seek to combat the spread of Covid-19. The impact has seen businesses forced to adapt to a reality that they would never have envisaged. Measures in the UK have left a variety of sectors reeling as shops have shut, operations have been restricted and events have been cancelled.
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Sports Sponsorship - COVID19 Contractual Impact Assessment Flowchart
22 April 2020Sponsors and sports rights owners are grappling with the impact of COVID-19 event cancellations on their sponsorship agreements. The ‘partnership’ spirit in which sponsorship agreements are entered into will no doubt be tested, as rights can’t be delivered and purse-strings are tightened.
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Will COVID-19 excuse contractual performance in international football contracts? - an overview of Court of Arbitration for Sport jurisprudence on force majeure
21 April 2020COVID-19 has caused financial difficulties for many in sport during the past few weeks, and especially football clubs given the current postponement of the season. It will, therefore, be no surprise if some parties will attempt to use COVID-19 in order to avoid contractual liabilities in the coming months.
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Sports Q&A – What are your top tips to sports organisations for surviving the Coronavirus crisis?
02 April 2020We truly hope you are all staying healthy and safe during this time. Here are our top tips for survival for sports organisations:
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Implying terms into commercial contracts impacted by COVID-19
31 March 2020We live and work in unprecedented times. The health of the population is rightly the priority, but it is abundantly clear that steps taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are having a very significant impact on the ability of businesses to fulfil obligations in commercial contracts.
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Jude Bellingham transfer: The rules Manchester United and their competitors will have to negotiate to sign Birmingham's star midfielder
19 March 2020Like everything in sport right now, Jude Bellingham’s future is on hold. But it now feels inevitable that Birmingham City’s prized asset will be flying the coop. However, if he is to get a dream move away, then his youth will play an important role. In this article for City A.M. John Shea comments on the complications of transfers for minors.
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Jude Bellingham transfer: The rules Manchester United and their competitors will have to negotiate to sign Birmingham's star midfielder
19 March 2020Like everything in sport right now, Jude Bellingham’s future is on hold. But it now feels inevitable that Birmingham City’s prized asset will be flying the coop. However, if he is to get a dream move away, then his youth will play an important role. In this article for City A.M. John Shea comments on the complications of transfers for minors.
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Coronavirus creating uncertainty for landlords
13 March 2020Covid-19 (or the coronavirus as it is more commonly known) has now been labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.
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Coronavirus - what it actually means for sponsors if 2020’s biggest events are disrupted - Alex Kelham comments for The Drum
11 March 2020The Tokyo Olympics, Glastonbury, Euro 2020, Cannes Film Festival, SXSW and Cannes Lions. These are some of the major events that hang in the balance as the coronavirus continues its global spread. In this article for The Drum, Alex Kelham comments on how relationships with sponsors will dictate negotiations.
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Sports Q&A - What should we consider before cancelling a sports event due to Covid-19?
05 March 2020With the number of cases of Coronavirus continuing to climb, the sports industry is starting to feel the impact. A number of sporting events, such as the Chinese Grand Prix, World Athletics Indoor Championships and Serie A football matches, have been cancelled or postponed. Our Q&A this month sets out some top tips for what you should be thinking about if you're in the unfortunate position of having to consider cancelling an event.
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Social Media stars provide opportunity and challenge for football: JJ Shaw comments for Off The Pitch
05 February 2020JJ Shaw was recently interviewed by Off The Pitch, where he discussed the changing commercial landscape for football clubs as the sport becomes ever more globalised and the demands of young fanbases are changing.
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2020 Tech Predictions
08 January 2020Well, it’s that time of the year where we use our 20/20 vision to see what exciting technology changes lie ahead in the next year and beyond. As it’s 2020, we couldn’t resist the urge to treat you to 20 of our best tech predictions, which build on the themes from our Tech Predictions for 2019.
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Sports Q&A - What does Brexit mean for football transfers?
07 January 2020Brexit finally does mean Brexit. The 2019 general election returned a Conservative government with a mandate to – as we repeatedly heard throughout the campaign – Get Brexit Done. What this means in the short term is that the UK will formally leave the EU on 31 January 2020.
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Sports Q&A - Athlete Unions: What do I need to know?
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The Esports Gold Rush – What Do ‘Traditional Sports’ Need to Consider?
29 November 2019Everybody wants a piece of the esports pie, and the International Cycling Union (ICU) is the latest to make its move. The world governing body of cycling has teamed up with Zwift - the innovative online platform which allows riders to compete against each other in a virtual world - to host the world’s very first ‘cycling esport world championships’ in 2020.
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More than just a stadium…
18 September 2019However it’s done, whether being rebuilt from scratch (Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Arsenal), expanded (Liverpool) or converted from other uses (West Ham, Manchester City), one thing for certain is that football stadiums are big business. In this article, we explore some of the current projects and highlight some of the hot topics surrounding these cathedrals of the national game.