Sports & entertainment practice has existed in our firm since 2010 and is unique in its kind. Currently Maxima Legal is one of several Russian law firms, which has organized and purposefully developed independent legal support in such fields as sports and entertainment. 

Present-day sport is a large and fast-growing sector of Russian business, which requires full and comprehensive legal support on various levels. The recent achievements of Russia in this field (in particular, the fact that Russia has won the right to host The 2014 Olympic Games and the Football World Cup in 2018 and plans to build a stadium to stage Formula-1 Royal Racing there) show high relevance of sport and entertainment and booming interest in these spheres. 

Our team includes several highly qualified experts in sport, investment, real estate and construction, IP, mass media and data protection laws, which allows the firm to work on the widest range of projects in the above-mentioned field. 

Our Europe and USA partners who focus on sports and entertainment allow us to provide qualified legal support not only within Russia, but also beyond it. 

Our sport practice assumes rendering a wide range of legal services related to:

• organization of sport competitions at national and international levels
• organization and legal support of finance projects related to sports, including those involving institutional investors and banks, by means of various financial instruments
• organization and legal support of sports related merge and acquisition (M&A) transactions
• development of territories, design, construction and use of stadiums and other sports objects
• sports’ related advertisement projects in Russia and abroad
• sports’ related sponsor projects in Russia and abroad
• activity of Russian and international sport federations
• relations between Russian and international sports federations, between sport federations and clubs, and particularly, between athletes and other sport professionals, including matters related to the composing and application of sport regulations, contracts, agreements, solidarity mechanisms, etc.
• organization of application and disposal of competition broadcasting rights, etc.
• employment of athletes, coaches, artists, managers and other sport professionals in Russia and abroad
• resolving disputes in Russian, foreign and international arbitration and national courts (between Russian and international sports federations and between sport federations, clubs and particular athletes, including matters related to application of sports regulations and rules, anti-doping rules, contracts, agreements, etc)

In the entertainment industry, our firm renders legal services concerned with:

• organization of concerts, performances, exhibitions and other public events in Russia and abroad;
• organization and legal support of finance projects related to entertainment, including those involving institutional investors and banks by means of various financial instruments
• organization and legal support of entertainment related merge and acquisition (M&A) transactions
• development of territories, design, construction and use of concert and cinema halls and other entertainment objects, including the mechanisms of public private partnership (PPP)
• entertainment related advertisement projects in Russia and abroad
• entertainment related sponsor projects in Russia and abroad
• organization of the application and disposal of rights to broadcast concerts and other entertainment, copyrights and associated rights to performances, phonograms, TV and radio programs, etc.
• creation of media products, movie, music and TV projects, including the work of motion picture studios, broadcasting organizations, etc.
• employment of entertainment professionals in Russia and abroad
• resolving entertainment related disputes in national courts by means of arbitration and other services in the said field