Our Experience in the Sports Sector

OUR EXPERIENCE IN THE SPORTS SECTOR

Nationally, we advise a broad range OUR WORK WITH NATIONAL Adding real of clients in the sports sector, from SPORTING BODIES providing individual players and athletes with personal tax and financial planning We also support more than 50 professional value to our advice to auditing and advising clubs, football and rugby players with their not-for-profit sporting bodies, national personal tax, and have assisted high profile clients through organisations, coaches and agents. players with tax investigations and Image Rights, as well as helping Premier League Our experience extends across many football clubs in financial difficulty. our significant professional sports including football, rugby, golf, cycling, cricket and motor racing. In addition, we act for a number of experience sporting bodies, such as the Sport and OUR RUGBY CREDENTIALS Recreation Alliance, the umbrella body within the for sport in the UK which represents 320 UHY support some of the UK’s leading stars sporting organisations, Commonwealth from the world of UK and international Games England, the body which leads and sports sector. rugby. With more than 80 top flight manages the participation of the England professional rugby players on our books, team at the Commonwealth Games, and including ten members of the Lions Squad the British Paralympic Association, the and UK based international players from the national paralympic committee for Great New Zealand, South African and Australian Britain. national teams, we are one of the leading UK advisers to the world of rugby. SUPPORT FROM OUR DEDICATED NATIONAL SPORTS GROUP UNDERSTANDING YOUR CORE ISSUES AND CONCERNS We recognise the challenges that sporting organisations face and, whilst we appreciate Our experience in the sports sector that each client’s circumstances are unique, includes auditing national clubs such as there are a number of financial and business Commonwealth Games England, British issues common to most sports players, Paralympic Association, Disability Sports agents and sporting bodies of which we Wales, Hockey Wales, Badminton Wales and have a deep understanding. Gymnastics Wales, auditing professional football clubs, community sports charities, As such, we maintain a national sports desk commercial golf clubs, gyms and sports and which comprises our sector specialists from social clubs, as well as Sebah Automotive across our UK offices who meet on a regular Limited, which manages the FIA/World basis to discuss issues affecting the sports Endurance Championship team Rebellion sector. Racing. Our relevant experience and national expertise, along with the long term relationships we develop with our clients, enables us to understand the challenges faced by clients within the sports sector and to offer advice based upon real understanding and experience.

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Whether at THE NEXT STEP the beginning For further information on the sporting services we can provide or to discuss your specific circumstances, please contact the head of our national sports desk: of your career Elliott Buss or entering Partner t: +44 1633 213 318 retirement, we e: [email protected] understand Alternatively, read more about us on our website at www.uhy-uk.com/sports. the pressures of being a sportsperson.

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