Sports Agencies Editing and Proofreading Services

A player leaves an agency in July. In September the club exercises an option in a contract the agency negotiated in March, and a boot deal the agency introduced renews automatically for three years. Whether any of that money reaches the former agent is decided by a clause nobody discussed at the beginning, because at the beginning everybody was optimistic.

We edit what sports agencies and player representatives produce — representation agreements and their commission and term provisions, endorsement and image rights documentation, deal memos and summaries for clients, client-facing explanations of contract terms, transfer and negotiation correspondence, agency terms with clubs and brands, regulatory registration documents, and the correspondence that ends a relationship. Our editors work on agreements between people who are getting on well.

The representation agreement's commission and termination provisions decide how a relationship ends before it has begun, and their failure is a document that describes the good years and not the exit. Every representation agreement is signed by two optimists and read by two lawyers. We work through these so the commission is stated with exactly what it is calculated on — basic wage only, or wage plus bonuses, appearance money, image rights and signing fees — since this single definition is worth more than the percentage; so the payment mechanism is fixed, whether the agency is paid by the client or by the club, with the tax consequences flagged for advice; so the term is stated with its end date and whether it renews automatically, because an evergreen agreement nobody remembers signing is the commonest grievance in this field; so the post-termination position is written explicitly: whether commission continues on a contract the agency negotiated, for how long, and what happens on an option, an extension or a renewal of an introduced deal; so the position on deals in progress at termination is covered, given that a negotiation two-thirds done is where the real dispute lies; so termination rights are mutual and the notice period is the same both ways; so the client's file, contacts and documents are returnable; and so the whole is summarised in plain language for a nineteen-year-old and their parents. Agreements written this way end without lawyers.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including agreements, client information and negotiation correspondence. We are editors rather than agents, accountants or lawyers, and we offer no legal advice and no view on commission, contracts or any relationship. What we can do is write the ending while everybody is still friendly.