Tim Cotton
A classics graduate from Oxford University, Tim specialises in media, events and sports law. Having spent six years as a journalist, primarily on local newspapers in Surrey, Tim trained as a solicitor, qualifying at Farrer & Co in 2002. Since then, he has worked as a content clearance lawyer for The Mail, The Guardian and The Telegraph newspapers as well as R&C’s Legal My Page service, at the same time as carving out a career as an in-house company lawyer, including 15 years at IMG. At IMG, Tim was the company’s worldwide football lawyer and played a major part in the development, creation and launch of the Premier League Channel and IMG's Sport 24 channel for shops and planes, while also overseeing the legal work for a number of other sports productions and the trading and exploitation of a multitude of sports media rights.
Tim is currently senior legal counsel at global events company Reed Exhibitions as well as a consultant at sports advertising company TGI Sport Media. Tim is married with three children, lives in Surrey and remains passionate about sport as well as sports and media law. He joins R&C to build up its sports law practice alongside Liz Roberts, Michelle Riondel, Atlanta Webster and CEO Alex Wade.
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