Onside Law LLP

Commercial, Intellectual Property, Governance and Regulatory

Co-founding partner Jamie Singer has been advising on high profile commercial, intellectual property, governance and regulatory matters across the sports and entertainment industries for over 25 years.

His commercial practice includes sponsorship, media rights, licensing, hosting, image rights and talent management. His regulatory practice focuses, in particular, on integrity and match fixing cases. Highlights include advising:

• football clubs AC Milan, West Ham and Rangers on their top tier sponsorship contracts and commercial rights exploitation issues generally (including AC Milan’s front of shirt sponsorship with Emirates)
• governing bodies such as World Rugby, Six Nations, LTA, European Rugby and ECB on complex negotiations including South Africa’s participation in rugby’s Champions Cup and structuring of the new Nations Cup
• regulators such as the Grand Slam Board of tennis and the International Tennis Integrity Agency; and
• talent such as Jannik Sinner and Sir Andy Murray

All of the leading independent legal directories recommend him as a leading sports law practitioner, in which he is described as:

• “Providing an amazingly efficient, straightforward service.” (Legal 500)
• “He is superb; he has a wealth of experience and his counsel on sensitive issues is invaluable.” (Chambers)
• “He is an impressive practitioner with experience advising clients that range from sports teams to broadcasters in a wide range of dispute, intellectual property and commercial matters.” (Who’s Who Legal)

He Co Authored the Sponsorship and Commercial Rights chapter of the textbook “Football and the Law” edited by Nick de Marco QC.

2005 - Present: Partner - Onside Law

2001 - 2005: In-house counsel - IMG

1996 - 2000: Associate - Clifford Chance

English

British Association for Sport and Law

1994 – 1996: College of Law, Guilford (CPE and LPC)

1991 – 1994: Nottingham University (Politics)

Guest Lecturer on the Sports Law Masters at ISDE in Barcelona

Guest lecturer on De Montfort University’s Sports Law Diploma