Meet the Team
Telephone:
0161 836 8800
Fax:
0161 836 8801
Email:
maurice.watkins@brabnerscs.com
Profile:
Joint Senior Partner, Manchester. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and University College London (LLB and LLM). He has handled numerous high value soccer transfers at home and abroad. He represents clubs (home and abroad) and players before FIFA, UEFA, FA, FA Premier League and FAW (Football Association of Wales) disciplinary bodies, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and international and league compensation tribunals. He is a regular speaker on footballing issues at home and abroad, having represented the Football Association and FA Premier League at recent conferences in Egypt, Qatar, Dubai, Trinidad and Tobago and Japan.
He has recently advised the South African Premier League on the sale of its broadcasting rights and also the Nigerian and United Arab Emirate football authorities on their professional football leagues.
He holds a number of key positions including:
- Director of Manchester United Football Club Limited
- Chairman of The Greyhound Board of Great Britain
- Director of the British Association for Sport and Law
- Member of the FA Premier League Legal Advisory Group
- Member of the Professional Football Negotiating & Consultative Committee for England and Wales
- FA Premier League representative on the Association of European Union Premier Professional Leagues (EPFL)
- Non-Executive Director for the Rugby Football League
- Regional chairman for Coutts Bank
- Chair of Governors of Manchester Grammar School
- Chairman of The New Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Appeal
- Chairman of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer North West Appeal
- Trustee of the Professional Footballers Pension Scheme
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