Morris Bentata
Morris is a partner specialising in sports and media. His practice focuses principally on the creation, acquisition, exploitation and protection of media and marketing rights to major sports properties and he regularly advises national and international governing bodies, event organisers, individuals, agencies, sponsors and broadcasters.
Morris’s media work includes advising on host broadcast, production and distribution arrangements together with the acquisition and exploitation of media rights for all types of content and across all types of platform. His marketing rights work includes advising clients on all forms of sponsorship and endorsement arrangements across a wide range of product and service categories and on their licensing and merchandising programmes.
The Legal 500 for 2008 describes Morris as a ‘star’ and says ‘clients are quick to praise’ him. Morris is the author of the Broadcasting and New Media chapter of the leading sports law textbook Sport: Law and Practice (Lewis & Taylor) and is a Director of the British Association of Sport and the Law (BASL).