Sport is now a multi-billion-euro business ecosystem, built on layers of governance, sponsorship, compliance, and dispute resolution. And this involves a great deal of legal work, from contract negotiation to privacy compliance. Aoife Farrelly and Emma Richmond know more about these issues than most. Farrelly is a barrister and chair of the Sports Law Bar Association. Meanwhile, Richmond is the joint managing partner of the law firm Whitney Moore and has worked with a host of professional athletes, sporting organisations, clubs and sports tech firms.  “Sport has exploded to an extent in the last kind of 10 years,” says Emma…

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