Jonathan Taylor Kc

Partner and Joint Head of the International Sports Group @Bird & Bird

London, GB

Drafting player contracts (he drafted the British Lions contracts for the 2001, 2005 and 2009 tours); broadcasting contracts (for the Six Nations Championship, the Heineken Cup, and the Football Associations of the Republic of Ireland, Wales and Northern Ireland, among others); sponsorship contracts (including the Lions-HSBC main sponsor contract for 2009 and 2013, and the ERC-Heineken title sponsorship for each cycle from 2001 to 2014); funding contracts; and match/event staging contracts. • Drafting sporting rules and regulations, including anti-doping rules (‘whereabouts rules’ for the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee, the ISTI and ISTUE for WADA, the UK Anti-Doping Rules for UK Anti-Doping, and the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme for the International Tennis Federation), anti-corruption rules (for the International Cricket Council and the British Darts Organisation), salary cap regulations (for the Rugby Football League), and match-sanctioning rules and regulations (for the International Cricket Council, the International Hockey Federation, and the International Equestrian Federation). • Bringing disciplinary charges against sports bodies and athletes, before internal tribunals and (on appeal) before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, including against Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif for breach of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Code; and against professional tennis players Mariano Puerta, Martina Hingis, Richard Gasquet, Viktor Troicki and Marin Cilic for breach of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme.

University College, Oxford

BA (Hons) 1st Class in Jurisprudence

University of Virginia

LLM