“In keeping with the company`s excellent reputation in sports, McCormicks serves a number of sports charities. Managing Partner Peter McCormick is a trustee of the Football Foundation, the country`s largest sports organization. In addition to its reputation as a leader in the sports market, the firm works for charities in a variety of other areas, including long-standing clients such as Harrogate International Festivals, which the firm recently advised on a number of employment matters as well as drafting a sponsorship contract for a literary festival. The firm also works for the War Memorials Trust, which is helping to rework the client`s government document in line with an extension of the work to Scotland. Other key figures include Elaine Lightfoot and Heather Roberts, whose clients include the John Strutt Memorial Fund. – Legal 500 “Peter McCormick leads the practice at McCormicks, known for his work in the world of football. The team also represents legal, accounting and pharmacy professionals in proceedings brought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Sara Morgan, Senior Partner, is a member of the Legal Committee of the National Pharmacy Association and has worked for pharmacists facing allegations including dispensing expired medications, breach of confidentiality, and delaying the delivery of medications to a patient who later died. McCormick has held a number of positions, including Chairman of the Premier League Legal Advice Group and Director of the Football Association. Over the past year, he has continued to advise the Premier League on proposals to revise the disciplinary aspects of FIFA`s agent regulations. Peter Minnikin was promoted to partner in 2016. – Legal 500 I was contacted by the Mobile Premier League (MPL) last year. MPL is a gaming company and wanted to build the world`s largest digital sports gaming and esports platform. The gaming legal landscape is very different from what I did at Inshorts, but now we are one of India`s fast-growing apps – we are eight months old and have over 25 million users.
Most recently, he was Senior Legal Counsel for Football Operations. He has also been a member of the FA`s Women`s Football Legal and Governance Group. King joined Arsenal`s legal team in 2016 and worked on the commercial side before moving into football operations in 2018. In his last role, he was responsible for all areas of football, both men`s and women`s, from the first team to the academy. Mainak chose to specialize early in his career and talks about the qualities required to succeed in a startup environment and the importance of legal support for start-ups in India. King had been employed at Arsenal since 2016, where he worked on commercial deals for the legal team before moving to the football department in 2018. Peter leads sports and media/entertainment at McCormicks and is an internationally recognized expert in these areas. He was recently voted one of the world`s top sports and entertainment lawyers by his peers after researching the leading guide Who`s Who Legal. “McCormicks is `a great regional company with exceptional customer service.` The team “knows how to conduct litigation before a disciplinary authority” and is also distinguished by its expertise in debt collection and insolvency proceedings. Philip Edmondson, “smart and conscientious,” who “knows how to get the most out of the board,” and Peter McCormick, “smart and committed,” jointly lead the department. Clients include professional liability insurers, private investors and high net worth individuals, international companies, family businesses and sports organisations such as the Premier League and various football clubs.
Edmondson handles a portfolio recovery issue for a long-standing client, the Solicitors Indemnity Fund. Legal 500 Inshorts faced legal issues with its intellectual property and content, and it also had very few internal processes for a company that had grown from 20 to 60 in three months and planned to grow to 200 in the coming months. You needed someone to oversee that growth – ideally, it wasn`t in the legal field, but if you`re a very small company with a very small core team, don`t ask these questions. I was responsible for putting in place their entire human resources policy, their commission against sexual harassment, to ensure compliance with the fundamental laws relating to work and employment, the existence of basic processes. Legally, I had to register their trademarks, make sure there was no copyright infringement, and make sure the company was protected as a 360° view. “Peter McCormick leads a multidisciplinary team at McCormicks and provides `valuable advice`. Clients include Harrogate International Festivals. – Legal 500 “The McCormicks team is extremely impressive in complex litigation.” Key individuals in the group include Philip Edmondson, director of the practice, who has expertise in multi-million pound damages claims, Peter McCormick, a well-respected named partner, and Heather Roberts, who handles a wide range of contentious industrial property issues. Roberts has specialized expertise in filming leases; She recently worked for a high-profile client on a lease claim. – Legal 500 Balwani leads the legal department of The Kraft Heinz Company in India and talks about her role and what she values in a company. With legal, most of the people involved at the start-up level are potentially younger, with four or five years of experience.
When the company gets really big, the question always arises, do you need to hire someone more experienced, and if you had to, would they understand the company as well as someone who has been there since the beginning? Would they have a better understanding of the digital and technical space – which is mostly lacking in India? What is the right balance between experience and youth when a business is growing? In August 2016, he was appointed Chairman of the FA Group Compensation Committee and served a six-year term until July 2022. He remains a member of this committee. In addition, he has been appointed chairman of the FA Premier League Medical Care Scheme Ltd, a company that provides private care to 95% of professional footballers in this country. “The Harrogate-based McCormicks firm is led by Peter McCormick and includes Philip Edmondson, who recently became a partner. Edmondson handles contentious and non-contentious matters; He has recently handled several cases for the Premier League, including defending the client in a high-profile Leyton Orient arbitration over West Ham United`s move to the Olympic Stadium, alleging the move was against competition law. McCormicks handles several cases for the same client, including advising a complaint filed by FIFPro with the European Commission alleging that certain aspects of the functioning of the transfer market are anti-competitive and violate EU law. – Legal 500 There aren`t many people in the startup space who are lawyers; I realized that I was probably one of the first to say very early on that I wanted to be part of the start-up sector, that`s what I want to focus on, that`s the most interesting area. White Sox Michael Kopech undergoes surgery on right knee One of the world`s leading sports and entertainment lawyers – Who`s Who Legal King – has been appointed following an independent and competitive recruitment process on behalf of the PFA, which recently underwent significant reforms to its governance and governance structures as part of an organization-wide modernization process.
I graduated from National Law School Bangalore in 2015. I was hired by a law firm and spent some time there before I was hired as legal counsel for startup news curation app Inshorts, around the time they raised $20 million from Tiger. King joined PFA from Arsenal, where he was senior legal adviser for football operations. Maheta Molango explains why his journey has led him to lead the PFA and what he is doing to change the union`s image – and the game In March 2016, he was elected by the Premier League and the FA`s Professional Game Board to the Football Regulatory Authority (FRA), which exercises the regulatory, disciplinary and regulatory functions of the FA.