Adam is a partner specialising in commercial law in the sport and entertainment sectors and is our Head of Commercial. He joined Onside Law in January 2010, having spent over 6 years with leading City firm, Allen & Overy, primarily in its Communications, Media and Technology department.

Adam acts for a broad range of clients including individuals, rightsholders, agencies, established brands and e-commerce/data-driven businesses. He has also spent time on secondment at the Rugby Football Union.

Adam’s practice predominantly involves general commercial matters including sponsorship agreements, supply of goods/services contracts and agreements relating to the exploitation of data and intellectual property rights. He also has a particular interest in the fields of technology, digital media and broadcasting and regularly advises clients on app/software development agreements, software licences, software escrow agreements, audio-visual exploitation contracts and host broadcast agreements.

Adam holds a Master’s degree in Sports Law and Practice and is recommended as a leading sports law practitioner in both the Legal 500 and the Chambers legal directories. Chambers describes him as "very good at what he does" and notes that he "provides top-quality advice at a very effective rate and is attentive to in-house lawyers and shareholders." Adam is also a trustee of The Concussion Foundation.

Adam boasts two notable sporting achievements - scoring 200 at ten-pin bowling at the firm’s Christmas party and holding a Millwall FC season ticket since 1986.

Stevie is a partner specialising in contentious matters in the sport sector. He joined the firm in February 2016, having previously been a partner at leading media firm, Carter-Ruck.

Stevie has broad commercial litigation experience including advising in relation to high-value breach of contract, professional negligence and IP claims. He also advises sport sector clients on a range of disciplinary and other regulatory matters.

He has considerable media litigation experience; he provides litigation and pre-litigation representation and advice in libel, breach of confidence and privacy matters. He also advises high profile individuals and companies on crisis control and reputation management. His previous career in broadcast journalism at the BBC and CNN informs his approach to such matters.

Stevie is commended in the two main independent legal directories. He is described as an “excellent tactician” in the 2016 edition of The Legal 500. The 2016 edition of Chambers and Partners notes that he combines "absolutely brilliant business acumen" with "fantastic interpersonal skills."

He is regularly asked to comment on legal issues, in the press, on national TV and on radio and is frequently invited to speak at conferences.

Stevie used to play rugby for London Irish before his ever diminishing pace, admittedly pedestrian to begin with, rendered him surplus to requirements, even for the reserves. These days he enjoys boxing; well, boxing training at least. The bags don’t hit back.

Jerry has recently joined Onside Law to launch and head our Swiss office in Geneva. Jerry advises on a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters including sponsorship, media rights, licensing and event organization, promotion, bidding and hosting.

Clients include international sports federations and competitions, such as the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the International University Sport Federation (FISU) and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), athletes, agencies and other rights intermediaries and several international brands including Pringles and The Faction Collective.

Prior to joining onside law, Jerry spent 7 years as senior counsel at UEFA working across the full range of its commercial activities on the Champions League, the European Championships, the Europa League and its other properties. Jerry has spent the last few years building an independent sports consultancy which will be continued through our Swiss office.

As is fitting for the head of our Swiss office, when he is not cheering on local ice hockey club Geneve Servette, Jerry spends as much time as possible in remote Alpine valleys of Valais trying to emulate the extreme exploits of his skier clients.

Tom has recently joined Onside Law to launch and head our Australian Office in Sydney. Tom’s is a corporate and commercial lawyer with skills ranging across sponsorship, media and broadcasting, brand, major events, government and talent management.

Clients include Sport & Entertainment Ltd, national sporting organisations such as BMX Australia and individual talent such as Shane Warne, Sam Burgess and Ian Thorpe.

Prior to joining Onside, Tom established himself as a leading sports and entertainment professional with over 20 years experience as a sports lawyer, event manager, commercial and project executive. During his time as In-house Counsel at the Australian Rugby Union (now Rugby Australia) Tom was the commercial and legal lead across RWC 2011, British & Irish Lions 2013, Gold Coast 7s 2013 & 2014, Sydney 7s 2016 and the 2016 National Rugby Championship.

Tom is a former professional Australian Rules footballer, who traded full contact sport for the more leisurely sporting pursuit of surfing. Though between ‘work’, two young kids and a black Labrador his time in the water is somewhat limited these days!

Ross is a senior associate in the dispute resolution team at Onside Law specialising in contentious and regulatory matters within the sports industry.

He joined Onside Law in January 2017 after a number of years with City law firm Macfarlanes. He is particularly known for his dispute resolution experience in acting for governing bodies and rights holders including the International Tennis Federation/Tennis Integrity Unit, the England and Wales Cricket Board, Team Sky, the Welsh Rugby Union, the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association and England Squash. He also acts for talent including professional footballers, tennis players and cyclists. He has particular expertise in regulatory matters including disciplinary and integrity issues and has been recognised in the Legal 500.

Highlights include:
• acting for the ITF/TIU in bringing proceedings against various tennis professionals under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program;
• acting for Gianni Moscon and Team Sky in successfully defending disciplinary proceedings before the UCI Disciplinary Commission; and
• advising the ECB on injunction proceedings and the Two Counties Cricket league on both injunction proceedings and at an Appeal Tribunal, in each case in relation to an immigration law matter that was well reported in the national media.

Ross sits on the Independent Disciplinary and Dispute Resolution Panel for Swim England. He is a member of Law in Sport and the British Association of Sports and Law. He has also completed the Sports Law and Practice course run by BASL in conjunction with De Montfort University.

Ross can usually be found on the tennis court where he is the captain of his club's first team and will also gladly share obscure sporting trivia with anyone (whether they are interested or not).

Harriet is a senior associate at Onside Law who joined the team in June 2017. Harriet trained and qualified at Global Law Firm DLA Piper, where she worked for 7 years specialising in a range of corporate transactions including acquisitions, disposals, investments and restructurings.

In her first few months, Harriet has worked on a range of corporate, governance and commercial matters for clients including The Players Tribune, England Squash, the ECB, the Angling Trust and the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Harriet has worked closely with, the leading esports company, Gfinity on several matters, including the launch of the F1 esports Series 2017 and the acquisition of US esports company, CEVO.

Harriet was seconded for a spell to HSBC to provide legal expertise to under performing commercial clients, overseeing strategy and attending board meetings. Last summer, she was selected to lecture at the University of Zambia's School of Law as part of an international pro bono project.

A former County Hockey Player, Cross Country Runner and Swimmer, Harriet enjoys all sports especially if she can combine travel with spectating. She spent 3 weeks at the Olympics in Rio and already has her sights on Tokyo 2020.

Harriet spends most of her spare time now perfecting her post-gym smoothies and taking full advantage of any good weather so she can go sailing on the Isle of Wight.

Joe is a senior associate at onside law who specialises in commercial law in the sports sector. His particular focus is advising rights holders on contractual matters relating to the exploitation of their commercial and media rights, high-value sponsorship agreements and the delivery of international sporting events.

He acts on a wide range of commercial matters for international federations, national governing bodies, clubs, individuals and agencies, including World Rugby, the ECB, Saracens, Team Sky and a Premier League football club, Recent highlights include advising the ECB on its title partnerships with NatWest and Vitality; acting for a Premier League football club on various sponsorships (including its first-ever shirtsleeve sponsorship); advising Team Sky, the RFU and the ECB on deals with official kit suppliers; and representing high-profile individuals, such as Maro Itoje and Matt Fitzpatrick, in relation to various endorsement agreements.

Joe’s broad commercial practice means he works across several major sports, with particular expertise in the commercial and regulatory frameworks of cricket, rugby, cycling and football. In addition to his day-to-day commercial rights work, Joe has gained significant experience advising on contractual matters relating to international sporting events, including the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017, Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018, ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and the proposed creation of the ECB’s new domestic Twenty20 competition.

He has also contributed to sports law publications, including authoring a detailed article on negotiating high-value kit and equipment supplier deals for Law in Sport .

Joe joined onside law in 2015, having trained and qualified at Hogan Lovells, where he advised on a variety of complex M&A transactions, commercial matters and governance issues and also spent time on secondment in Dubai.

Joe prides himself on his recollection of obscure sporting trivia – with a particular focus on the travails of England’s rugby, cricket and football teams from 1998 onwards.

Sophie is an associate at Onside Law who specialises in commercial, IP, IT and data protection work for clients in the sports and media sectors. Sophie covers a broad range of matters, including endorsement, hosting, outsourcing and other commercial contracts, IP and IT related arrangements and data protection issues.

Sophie joined onside law in October 2016. Prior to this, Sophie spent five years at Macfarlanes, where she worked in the commercial department and advised on a wide range of complex commercial and corporate transactions.

Sophie used to play tennis full time and can now be found back on the court after a ten-year break.

Marc is an associate at Onside Law who focuses on corporate and commercial work for clients primarily in the sports, media and other entrepreneurial sectors.

Recent highlights include advising Velocity Experience on its staging of the F1 Live London event; Gfinity on its acquisition of US-based eSports business CEVO, Inc.; and Epsilon Partners on its investment in The Run To, a supercar events business. Marc has experience advising a number of UK sport governing bodies on their corporate governance and has recently acted for Srixon, Wentworth Golf Club, Human Race Group and Leeds United FC on a range of corporate and commercial matters.

Marc was formerly an associate at Clifford Chance and White & Case in London and Singapore.

Marc has an impressive back catalogue of Newcastle United goalkeeper shirts dating back to the 1990s. On Saturdays, Marc can be found between the sticks for his university old boys’ team, armed with a dodgy goal kick and a propensity to flap at crosses.

Leon is an associate at Onside Law who focuses on commercial and corporate work for clients in the sports and media sectors.

Leon joined Onside Law in January 2016. Prior to this, Leon trained and worked in the corporate department at Jones Day, where he advised private and public companies on a range of corporate transactions including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and fund formations both domestically and cross-border.

In his spare time, Leon can be found frantically watching Liverpool FC’s doomed attempts to reclaim the Premier League title and regaling anyone who will listen about the time he shared a football pitch with Patrick Berger and Vladimir Smicer.

James is an associate specialising in commercial litigation and regulatory matters.

James focuses on disputes for clients in the sport, fashion and entertainment sectors, with his experience encompassing High Court and County Court disputes, international and domestic arbitration, and public inquiries. Regular work includes contractual disputes, breaches of post-termination restrictive covenants, claims for inducing breach of contract, insolvency claims, defamation and intellectual property infringements.

James also has considerable experience advising clients on commercial agreements, drafting rules and regulations for governing bodies, and advising clubs on playing contracts and transfers.

In addition, James has written for a number of publications including Law in Sport and ESPN, focussing in particular on tapping up and illegal player approaches.

Charlotte is an associate at Onside Law who focuses on commercial and corporate work for clients in the sports and media sectors.

Charlotte joined Onside Law in August 2018. Prior to this, Charlotte trained at Allen & Overy, qualifying into the tax department, where she advised multinational corporations and financial institutions on a wide variety of matters, from bond issuances and securitization transactions, to corporate mergers and acquisitions and real estate. Charlotte spent time on secondment in Istanbul at the Allen & Overy office. Charlotte briefly worked in-house at Compass Group PLC on commercial contracts and intra-group matters

A former England lacrosse player, these days Charlotte competes in triathlons of varying distances and has qualified for the GB Age Group team. Most weekends she can be found somewhere in the Surrey Hills on a bicycle desperately dodging potholes.

Rebecca is an associate at Onside Law who focuses on commercial work for clients in the sports and media sectors.

Prior to joining Onside Law, Rebecca completed her training at DLA Piper. Rebecca spent the final six months of her training contract on secondment with the Premier League’s in-house legal team.

In her spare time, Rebecca heads back up to Manchester whenever possible to make the most of season tickets at Sale Sharks and Manchester City.

Alex is a corporate / commercial associate at Onside Law and he acts for a wide variety of clients in the sports and media sectors.

Prior to joining Onside Law, Alex was an associate at a leading City law firm where he advised entrepreneurs, early-stage growth companies and national & multi-national corporations on the corporate aspects of mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments and corporate governance matters. He also advised national charities and institutional charities (in particular, Royal Chartered bodies) on a panoply of charity law and governance issues.

Alex is an avid sports fan. Outside work, he can usually be found on the golf course suffering with a disobedient golf ball.

Alex advises on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law issues and acts for employers, athletes, coaches and executives in Employment Tribunal and High Court claims, including for unfair dismissal, discrimination, breach of contract and whistleblowing. Alex is also experienced in acting on behalf of athletes in anti-doping matters.

Work highlights include successfully overturning a professional football player's ban for anti-doping offences and advising the former assistant manager of a leading professional football club in his successful claim for breach of contract.

Alex also contributes to sports and employment law publications, including a detailed look at the discrimination claims successfully brought against Newcastle United by their former player, Jonas Gutierrez; and the six-year "cooperation agreement" between FIFA and players' body FIFPro regarding professional footballers' rights in relation to breaches of contract by their employing club.

Alex joined Onside Law in 2018, having trained and qualified at Penningtons Manches, before joining Thomas Cooper in their Employment and Sports team. Alex is a recommended Sports lawyer in the Legal 500.

Away from his desk, Alex is a Brighton and Hove Albion fan and can regularly be seen behind the goal in the North Stand at the Amex Stadium. Sadly, this is likely to be the closest that Alex will ever get to being featured on Match of the Day.

Ollie joined Onside Law as a paralegal during the summer of 2018, after completing his law school exams.

He assists the team on a wide range of matters, from contentious to corporate.

In his spare time, Ollie enjoys playing football and golf and is a huge Charlton Athletic fan, having had a season ticket since he was 4.

Monisha joined Onside Law in July 2016. After completing her Public Communications degree in Australia, she worked in a number of graduate and support roles before moving to London.

She is responsible for the day to day running of the firm as well as marketing and event management.

Monisha enjoys the UK’s close proximity to Europe, playing golf and visiting every museum London has to offer.

Charlotte joined Onside Law in January 2018. She completed her CILEx Legal Secretary Diploma and went on to work as a Legal Assistant roles in outer London and city firms.

Charlotte assists the team with a variety of secretarial tasks as well as being involved with the firm’s Wellbeing and Charity programme.

Outside of work, Charlotte enjoys walking, hiking and is a keen baker.

Rebecca joined Onside Law in April 2018. After completing her degree in History and International Relations, Rebecca went on to work for a startup company in a marketing and PA role.

Rebecca assists the team with a variety of secretarial tasks.

Outside of work she enjoys playing netball and is a massive foodie.