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To get the best results requires incisive forward thinking, skill, discipline and a solid defence. Success in life is a marathon, not a sprint. You

need to tackle every challenge, both on and off the pitch with a legal team alongside you that will offer you the very best protection,

formation and tactics to ensure your lasting success.

Team talk

contracts

reputation

building on your brand

wealth planning

family

assets

disputes

legacy

injury

crime

disciplinary

Team sheetCONTRACTSThe whole game plan needs to be based around clear and effective professional contracts between players, teams, clubs, managers, agents and advisers so that your career can prosper on and off the pitch.REPUTATIONAs your sporting career builds, so too does reputation. Professional and personal reputations need to be enhanced, managed and safeguarded.

BUILDING ON YOUR BRANDA strong reputation, and perhaps a trademark or two, results in opportunities for sponsorship, endorsements and commercial deals. Ensuring that those agreements are properly drafted and that your brand is properly protected helps secure your career off the pitch.WEALTH PLANNINGOnce you’ve taken the lead, making sure that you stick to the strategy requires careful planning and implementation. Advice on wills, trust structures and tax will help preserve your momentum to achieve your goals.FAMILYYou also need to be prepared should any unexpected challenges arise in your personal life. Cohabitation agreements, pre-nuptials, divorce and children are important issues and you have to ensure that the best interests of you and your family are preserved.ASSETSYour investments need securing and we can ensure that you know how to structure and protect your portfolio of assets - whether financial investments, artwork or real estate.DISPUTESDespite the very best planning, rarely does a playing career run perfectly smoothly. You need a tough, no-nonsense enforcer to deal quickly with clashes over contracts and relationships so that you can focus on your game.DISCIPLINARYCompetitive sport involves judgment calls and the boundaries are sometimes blurred. You need clear and practical advice to protect your position and someone who will fight for you if the rules have been broken or a drug test result is positive.CRIMEThings can go badly wrong. If you have a brush with the law, we can be there with emergency advice around the clock.INJURYSport can be bruising and you need the right action should an injury impact on your career. We can work with you to ensure that if you are on the injury-list, you have the right structures in place not to lose out.LEGACYLegacy is the “target man” for your team. The “sporting peak” is often over within a few years so you must have along-term outlook and focus on life after sport. Advice on business ventures, personal investments and other commercial agreements means that your personal and professional success does not end when you hang up your boots.

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