Couchmans Helps npower The Football League to Major Sponsorship Deal
31 March 2010 Couchmans LLP, the leading specialist sports law firm, has acted for The Football League in its 3-year title sponsorship deal with energy provider npower. From Season 2010/11, The League will be known as ‘the npower Football League’, with its 3 divisions titled ‘the npower Championship’, ‘npower League 1’ and ‘npower League 2’.
Andy Korman, the Partner at Couchmans handling the deal on behalf of The Football League said, “There is a very small number of deals of this size and complexity in sport in the UK each year and we are proud to have been chosen by The Football League to assist them with their anchor sponsorship.’
Nick Craig, The Football League Director of Legal Affairs, commented, “We chose Couchmans because we knew that their team had great experience of handling major sponsorship deals in football and other sports and we were delighted throughout with the way they dealt with matters on our behalf’.
For further information contact:
andrew.price@couchmansllp.com or
andy.korman@couchmansllp.com
Couchmans is a commercial law firm offering specialist legal advice to the sports industry.
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