Philip Bowers

Phil heads up the commercial and sports law team at O’Connors. He also has significant corporate experience and handles a wide range of transactions, projects and day to day business issues for a wide variety of clients throughout the UK and internationally.

Commercial Law
Phil has a wealth of experience supporting and assisting clients on:

• Commercial contract drafting and negotiations;
• Terms and conditions of sale (B2B and B2C);
• Intellectual property advice;
• Software development and SasS agreements;
• Warehousing and transportation agreements;
• Trading agreements including supply, service, reseller and distributions agreements;
• Energy contracts; and
• Joint venture agreements.

Sports law
Phil’s expertise in the sports sector includes acting for owners of professional and amateur sports clubs, sports businesses and governing bodies on:

• Contractual agreements and negotiations;
• Sponsorship advisory support including athlete sponsorship and event sponsorship arrangements;
• Specialist intellectual property, including licensing and data rights protection and solutions in sport;
• Regulatory advice;
• Finance and restructuring;
• Mergers, acquisitions, and disposals; and
• Sports technology and product development advice.

Corporate law
Phil’s corporate background also enables him to handle corporate matters including:

• Share and asset acquisitions and disposals;
• Management buy outs;
• Company incorporations;
• Business restructuring; and
• Shareholder agreements.