Tim Copplestone > Clarke Willmott LLP > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile
Clarke Willmott LLP Offices
1 GEORGES SQUARE
BATH STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 6BA
England
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Tim Copplestone
Work Department
Employment and Sport
Position
Tim is an employment lawyer within the firm’s sport sector, having previously been an international athlete representing Great Britain in kayaking. Tim advises a wide range of commercial employers, professional clubs and senior employees on contractual matters (including football manager contracts, bonus structures and tailoring restrictive covenants), Employment Tribunal litigation, and employment issues arising in corporate transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
(Leading partners)Clarke Willmott LLP‘s advisory offering in the sports sector encompasses the full range of major disciplines, as well as a broad variety of other mandates including employment law matters, stadium planning work and commercial litigation. Championship footballers, managers and professional athletes form part of the group’s client roster, which also includes professional sports organisations and governing bodies. Practice head Tim Copplestone is hailed as an ‘absolute superstar in the sporting space’ and specialises in sports-related employment matters. Structuring, governance, finance, and corporate acquisition work are core areas of expertise for Robert Ridd.
South West > Employment > Employment: Bristol
(Next Generation Partners)Praised for possessing ‘a real strength in depth and a human, personal touch‘, Clarke Willmott LLP’s employment law capabilities span both contentious and non-contentious matters; the team’s regular workload comprises TUPE transfers, dismissals, and tribunal proceedings, particularly in the sports sector. With nearly three decades of experience in the market, Bristol team head Sharon Latham is a seasoned advisor with particular expertise in the manufacturing, property, and retail sectors. Firmwide sports group head Tim Copplestone works with a host of leading clubs, managers, players, and agents on an array of contentious and non-contentious matters, including arbitration tribunals and high-profile terminations. Sarah MacLarty, whose recent workload includes mass redundancy proceedings for blue-chip companies, is also noted.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners South West > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Next Generation Partners South West > Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Sport South West > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
- Employment: Bristol South West > Employment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Employment: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Private client > Family
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Bristol
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment: Bristol
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing
- Real estate > Commercial property: Bristol
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Bristol
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy and projects
- Real estate > Environment
- Finance > Banking and finance