Quinlan switches teams

Mr Quinlan, a senior associate who spent time on secondment to both the Rugby World Cup and Olympics, played twice for Ireland before retiring due to injury in 2007.

He is one of three sports lawyers to join Fladgate from Pinsent Mason.

Fladgate’s new team of ten partners and associates will focus on commercial rights exploitation, sport investment and finance, events, governance and dispute resolution and infrastructure and stadia.

The firm’s chairman Charles Wander said: “This is a major extension of our existing sports practice and fits well with other areas we’ve been building recently such as construction, litigation and infrastructure.”

Fladgate led the legal team advising shareholders who sold a majority stake in Swansea City FC to a consortium of US investors led byJason Levien and Steve Kaplan and also advised on Gareth Bale’sworld record £85m transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madridand his multi-million pound football boot and merchandise agreement with Adidas.