We offer first class advice on the application of licensing laws and have established a national reputation for the quality of our work including alcohol and entertainment licensing.
Our team specialises in the licensing of major venues and provides a fast, friendly and cost effective service for clients across the UK including experienced and skilled advocacy. We frequently appear before Licensing Committees across London, the South and the Midlands on behalf of major clients.
The team has considerable experience dealing with licensing applications for unusual or complex venues such as airports, national sports grounds, race tracks and theatres and acts on behalf of a variety of clients including large venues such as Wembley Stadium, Ascot Racecourse, The O2 Arena and Twickenham Rugby Stadium.
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The “knowledgeable, co-operative and positive team” at this Reading firm has an excellent track record acting on behalf of large entertainment venues and sports grounds. Highlights include dealing with three 24-hour licence applications for The O2 in Greenwich, advising Ascot Racecourse and Twickenham Rugby Stadium on their licensing concerns and handling a new 24-hour premises licence for Wembley Stadium. The lawyers also act in heavily contested licence applications for Wembley Arena and Arena Square.
Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession
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You can contact our licensing team on 0118 951 6800
Blandy & Blandy LLP’s ‘excellent’ team acts for The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, The FA Panel, AEG and Wembley Estate Management. Practice head Sue Dowling is ‘outstanding’.
The Legal 500 2011 Edition
The licensing team at this Reading-based firm is regularly instructed by a number of large sporting and entertainment venues. Recent highlights include advising The FA on licensing Wembley Stadium, providing counsel to AEG Europe on the O2 Arena and handling licensing issues for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic & Paralympic Games and Ascot Racecourse. Sources say: "It is efficient yet friendly and gives value-for-money support and advice. It is small enough to care, and large enough to support big businesses at short notice."
KEY INDIVIDUALS Clients appreciate group head Sue Dowling for "displaying a real passion for our business, and taking a very pragmatic view of the commercial application of the licence."
Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2012