Sports
We bring extensive sector knowledge and technical insight to support sports companies through strategic and agile human resource planning and management that delivers competitive edge.
What we do
As employer solutions lawyers, we can help your organisation optimise HR performance throughout the employee lifecycle.
We have extensive experience within the sports sector, working with professional clubs, club owners and sports agencies based within the UK and overseas on the full range of HR, employment, immigration and mobility needs.
We offer strategic, agile human resource planning & management that delivers competitive edge
I believe our real specialism is helping employers derive maximum value from their HR capability
How we do it
Our specialist team of lawyers and consultants work with sports businesses of all sizes, delivering strategic consultancy and managed services in support of the organisation’s people-led business objectives.
Employer solutions
We help our sports sector clients:
Mobilise highly skilled, specialist talent across the globe
Streamline people processes across the employee lifecycle
Manage emergency visa applications
Improve the recruitment and retention of high-calibre staff
Meet employment, immigration compliance and right to work obligations
Enhance internal support functions through training and professional development programmes
Immigration law
Our team of leading UK immigration lawyers help sports companies with all aspects of their UK immigration needs.
Through our strategic advice and managed migration services, we operate in support of inhouse HR teams or on a fully outsourced basis to ensure you operate competitively and in full compliance when employing overseas workers. Clients benefit from access to our immigration lawyers via a dedicated telephone support line, available weekdays from 8.30am – 6.00pm.
Employment law
Our team of employment lawyers works with employers of all sizes to provide ongoing employment law advice, representation and strategic risk management guidance. We offer specialist, fixed fee employment law services, including access to unlimited telephone advice.
HR Consultancy
Our team of highly experienced HR consultants can support sports companies to improve the performance of their HR function and enhance the overall impact of HR projects.
We combine deep industry knowledge with technical expertise to help employers in the sports sector drive commercial performance through a transformative approach to human resource planning, management and development.
Global mobility
Given the highly competitive nature of professional sports, effective global mobility programmes are critical to agile, flexible and compliant recruitment and onboarding of specialist, international talent.
We help ensure our sports clients’ global mobility programmes are both fully compliant with immigration requirements and effective in supporting commercial operations.
In any organisation, people are the defining features of both commercial advantage and risk.
Anne Morris
Managing Director
Latest sports sector insights
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