EXPERIENCE: Sports Law

We have used our law skills while working for a hockey equipment company, the NHL, CFL, and a minor professional baseball club. Members of our team have also enjoyed representing professional and amateur athletes.

Some of those legal services include the following:

  • Research and prepare arbitration briefs, and appear at salary arbitrations on behalf of NHL Member Clubs to present the Club’s salary arbitration case.
  • Advised NHL general managers and staff on the standing of certain NHL Players under the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement.
  • Sports agent for professional and amateur athletes.
  • Advised professional sports franchises on corporate commercial, merchandising, licensing, intellectual property, taxation, government relations and labour law issues.
  • Exclusive counsel to a minor professional baseball club.
  • Providing all advice including litigation, corporate, commercial, intellectual property, internal league issues and by-laws, labour, and merchandising for a professional baseball team.Alberta river at sunset
  • Participating in the sale and structuring of a CFL Football Member Club into a limited partnership.
  • Advising a hockey skate development company with regard to the sale or licensing of their patented technology to a worldwide sports equipment manufacturer.
  • Advising an amateur organization that promotes the Olympics and winter sports.

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