Elizabeth Mehdevy

Elizabeth specialises in commercial and contentious aspects of sport and has experience in advising clients from the motor racing, football, rugby and cricket sectors. Elizabeth has acted for Premiership football clubs on a variety of issues, both before the High Court and the disciplinary panels of the Football Association and the Football League. In rugby, Elizabeth has acted for a number of professional rugby clubs on issues ranging from promotion and relegation criteria to commercial disputes involving sponsorship and the manufacture of playing-kit, to insurance coverage for on-the-field injuries.

Elizabeth's experience covers advising on legal restrictions on sports marketing, advising sporting organisations on the implications of regulation in the field, such as surrounding the 2012 Olympics, as well as advising advertising agencies on UK and Pan-European sales promotions and UK-based advertising for print and broadcast.