Jacob Webster

Jacob Webster is an Associate in the Sports Group in London, where he advises clients — including governing bodies, event organisers and their partners — on a variety of sports regulatory matters. His primary practice area is Sports Law.

He trained with Bird & Bird and qualified into the Sports Group in 2020. He has experience advising on regulatory issues across a range of sports including football, rugby union, cricket and biathlon. He has been involved in the drafting of sporting rules and regulations, as well as helping with a series of commercially focused matters, and works with clients to resolve disputes encompassing commercial disputes and other regulatory issues.

As part of his training contract, he spent time on secondment with a national sports governing body, where he worked on a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters, developing his experience within the industry and gaining insight into the commercial and regulatory challenges and opportunities these bodies encounter daily.

He is closely involved in the firm's Media, Entertainment and Sport sector and is a core member of the MediaWrites editorial team — Bird & Bird's legal news hub for the media, entertainment and sports industries. Working in this way has afforded him a constant awareness of new and developing issues facing these sectors, and specifically the sports sector, as well as close working relationships with lawyers across these areas, both locally and internationally.