Tim Bailey
Partner
Telephone: +44 (0)1782 205 000
Email: tim.bailey@beswicks.com
Practice areas
Tim is a commercial lawyer with a passion for sport.
As a member of the Beswicks Sports Team, Tim advises professional athletes, clubs and corporate bodies on sports related contractual and commercial issues predominately in the world of football and cricket, bringing a focused understanding of the business of sport to those he deals with.
Specialisms
- Sports sponsorship and promotion
- Media and sports IP rights
- Image rights
- Sports regulatory matters
- Professional athletes employment and commercial contracts
- Representation of youth players
- Immigration to UK for sports professionals
- Athlete management including co ordination of financial, tax and investment advice and planning
- Affiliation and partnership of USL franchise holders with UK and International clubs
Recent transactions
- Advising on the international transfer of a high profile Korean player to a Premier League club
- Advising Premier League Club on recent multi million pound transfers and associated image rights contracts
- Advising Premier League Club on various regulatory issues, including the drafting of standard player contract provisions
- Representation of youth players in recent high profile transfers to Premiership clubs
- Negotiation and completion of record value sponsorship contract with cricket equipment provider
- Advising on an investment proposal for the acquisition of economic rights in Brazilian footballers
- Advising Super League rugby club on image rights issues
- Setting up corporate structure and commercial agreements for development of a football academy in Senegal
- Incorporation of sports based charity to provide aid to African nations
- Representing leading young GB Olympic sprinters in commercial activities
- Advising Olympic gold medal sprint cyclist in mechandising agreements
Other professional & pro bono
- Founder shareholder of Planet Sport, a provider of core curriculum multi-sports coaching to children
- Author of numerous sports law articles for publications such as FC Business
- Member of the British Association for Sport and the Law
Personal
- Spoils a good walk with his golf, but now has a dog!
- A avid fan of international football.
