About Sports Law in Kenya
The continuing commercialization and commodification of global sports such as football, cricket, rugby, and athletics means that individuals and entities that participate in them or organize them will from time to time require various kinds of legal services. Their legal needs will relate to obtaining contracts that best safeguard their interests, resolving claims of injury to parties involved in sports, ensuring that the bodies that regulate sports make fair decisions and do not abuse their powers (including the power to discipline athletes for misconduct such as doping), and resolving disputes between athletes, clubs, and the bodies that regulate sports.
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Successful athletes and clubs greatly influence the purchasing decisions of their fans. Thus, supporters will buy merchandise featuring their favorite players and teams. This has attracted corporations, which seek to exploit the fame of star athletes and teams to market their products through endorsement contracts. These contracts allow the corporations to use the athletes’ or teams’ names, likeness, and reputation to promote their goods or services.
Our approach with sports law
In our Sports Law practice:
- We negotiate and draft suitable contracts that safeguard the interests of our clients.
- We assist our clients to resolve claims of injury by framing their claims and representing them before relevant dispute resolution forums.
- We assist our clients to receive fair decisions by representing them in the disciplinary tribunals of sports regulatory bodies.
- We represent our clients to challenge unfair decisions of sports regulatory bodies in courts of law.
- We assist our clients to sign endorsement contracts that best safeguard their media profiles and interests.
- We assist our clients to establish and protect their moral and intellectual property rights.
Your Sports Lawyer in Kenya
Prof. Migai Akech
Member of the Ministry’s Mineral Prospecting and Mining Rights Advisory committee, participated in the evaluation of mineral rights applications.
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We provide advisory services, evidence-based policy development, policy analysis, legislative drafting, lobbying for legislative and regulatory reforms, and monitoring and evaluation in our areas of focus.
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