Sport at scale is built on law long before the first fixture. A venue has to be acquired, permitted and built. An organising body has to be constituted and made accountable. Rights to sponsor, to broadcast and to sell tickets have to be granted cleanly. Rules of eligibility, conduct and discipline have to hold up when they are challenged. This capability brings the practice’s core disciplines together for the organisations that carry that weight, whether a federation, a public authority, an event delivery body or a commercial partner.
Gujarat is preparing to receive sport on a scale it has not seen before, and Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad sit at the centre of that build. New stadiums, training venues, transport links and the bodies that will run them all raise questions that cross land, contract, governance and regulation at once. The practice is positioned across Delhi and Gujarat to work on that preparation from the ground up.
Venue and infrastructure
Large sporting infrastructure carries the same legal load as any major industrial project, with a shorter clock. Land assembly and title, development and construction contracts, environmental clearances, and the arrangements that govern who owns, operates and maintains a venue after the crowds leave all have to be settled early and cleanly. The practice reads these as one connected question rather than a stack of separate files.
Organising bodies and governance
An event is only as sound as the body that runs it. Constitutions, delegation of authority, procurement discipline, conflict management and the accountability of office holders decide whether decisions survive scrutiny. The practice advises federations, associations and public delivery bodies on how they are set up and how they answer for what they do.
Rights, sponsorship and broadcast
The commercial value of sport lives in its rights. Sponsorship, licensing, ticketing and broadcast agreements have to grant what they promise, protect the marks and the images they rely on, and hold together if the fixture list moves. The practice drafts and defends these arrangements and treats the intellectual property that underpins them as central, not incidental.
Discipline, eligibility and regulation
Rules of eligibility, selection, conduct and anti-doping are where sport most often meets the tribunal. The practice advises on how these frameworks are written and applied so that a decision taken under pressure can be defended calmly afterwards, and it acts when such a decision is questioned.
Disputes and urgent protection
Fixtures do not wait. When a selection, a sanction, a rights grant or a venue arrangement is disputed close to an event, the timing matters as much as the merits. The practice brings its commercial-disputes, arbitration and urgent-protection work to bear so that a genuine right can be protected before the moment to protect it has passed.