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Zane Shihab
Work Department
Sports, IP and Media
Position
Zane is a Partner and the Head of UK Sport, IP & Media, providing practical commercial advice to global brands, international sporting bodies and events and high-profile individuals. He specialises in drafting commercial contracts including sponsorship, joint venture, merchandising, telecommunications, new media, agency, distribution and image rights agreements, venue agreements and IP and software licences. He has negotiated numerous lucrative sponsorship and supplier agreements on behalf of sporting governing bodies including the PGA European Tour, Ryder Cup, World Marathon Majors, London Marathon, RideLondon and the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon).
He is a regular contributor to sports publications and author of many articles in the sports sector.
Career
Trained Max Bitel Greene LLP; qualified 2009; partner Kerman & Co 2014-2021. Kerman & Co combined with Armstrong Teasdale in 2021.
Publications of note: ‘Brand Games: How Not To Get Sued’ (an article written for the Sports Journalist Association website about 2012 London Olympic legislation) and ‘Are Match Officials Fair Game?’ (which was published in the British Association for Sport and Law Journal).
Memberships
SRA; British Association of Sport and Law.
Education
Hatch End High School; St Dominic’s College; Keele University (LLB); College of Law (LPC).
Leisure
Travelling, sports, reading.
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Event management specialists Armstrong Teasdale support a number of major competitions, such as The All-England Lawn Tennis Club, the London Marathon and EUFA, with an exhaustive range of relevant issues, including delivery and supplier agreements, security contracts, venue agreements, data protection, and concession contracts. The practice is headed up by Zane Shihab, while James Thorndyke focuses on regulatory and disciplinary issues, often in the public eye. Thorndyke also assists on issues involving the illegal buying and selling of sporting events tickets. Consultant Nick Bitel
supports Shihab on the drafting and negotiation of regulations in the equestrian space.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Employers