Sports and Entertainment

Legal assistance aimed at fostering culture among people.

The booming diversification of sports and culture, particularly within the digital world, requires companies to increasingly seek legal assistance to mitigate risks and implement projects. In such landscape, a firm that keeps up with technological innovations and grasps the particularities of the sector makes all the difference.

Demarest is a full-service firm. Such multidisciplinary nature enables our practice to reach beyond the sports and entertainment industry in several areas of law, in order to improve our chances of success throughout each stage of a project: whether in audiovisual production, events and concerts, sponsoring and use of image, providing assistance from the early stages organization, contracting, licensing and distribution, or in sports, representing athletes, advising clubs, recreational associations and other players of the sector.

Our lawyers understand the complexity of the industry and can assist you on topics such as:

• labor and employment matters;
• licensing of use of image, brands and products;
• sponsorship;
• games and lotteries;
• contracts involving use of image, concerts and events;
• negotiation of spaces and on-line platform contracts;
• sports contracts, including transfer of players and regulations of clubs and recreational associations;
• Tax Planning;
• Intellectual Property;
• registration and structuring of companies;
• insurance coverage;
• representation before the National Council of Self-Regulation of Advertising (CONAR);
• assistance on regulatory matters of the sports and entertainment industry before the competent entities;
• litigation and alternative means of dispute resolution.