Sports Law Practice

The Indian sporting industry has grown exponentially in the last decade. With the advancement of the sporting structure and the introduction of various sports leagues throughout the country, there has been an increase in disputes in the sports sector. An industry worth billions of dollars with a pervasive global presence is bound to breed its own disputes and this resulted in the growth and development of sports law as a separate discipline in its own right.

Lex Sportiva or Sports Law is basically an amalgamation of various facets of law and its ambit covers IP law, Contract law, commercial law, labour law, media law, tort law, and so on. We at Khurana and Khurana pioneer in most of the fields mentioned above. Sports Law, in theory, is an umbrella term that describes the legal issues that arise in the sporting industry. However, there are also certain disputes which concern laws that are sports specific like anti-doping law, betting and gambling laws, issues in player transfers, image rights of the athletes and franchises, dispute resolution in sports, sports specific codes, policies, and regulations.

With the rapid growth of the sporting industry, there has been an evident rise in the issues related to this area of law, therefore, piling up the legal work. Khurana and Khurana is branching out to become a full-service law firm that caters not only to the needs of the IP, media, and commercial laws but also to the sporting industry.

We at Khurana and Khurana recognize the importance of legal nuances that comes with sports and provide for all the facilities possible to explore this area. We have absorbed sports law into our repository of legal services in order to serve the legal needs of this ever-growing, vibrant, and multi-faceted sporting industry in India. We cater to the legal needs of the sports players, franchises, governing bodies, sports brands, and so on.

Practice Contacts

Abhijeet Deshmukh
(Associate Partner And Advocate – Litigation)

Sudhanshu Sahoo
(Associate – Litigation)