Darren Kane Email and Phone Number

Darren is a specialist sports and commercial lawyer admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of NSW, High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of England and Wales. Darren holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) specialising in sports law.Darren advises a range of sporting clients including international, national, state and regional sports governing bodies and other multi-disciplinary sports organisations; athletes; rights holders; and agencies from sports including rugby league, football (soccer), water polo, modern pentathlon, cricket, tennis, swimming, diving, archery, thoroughbred racing, harness racing, hang gliding, baseball, judo, taekwondo and track & field athletics. He advises in areas including sports governance; the drafting and implementation of sporting rules and regulations; anti-doping; sports dispute resolution and disciplinary matters; international and Olympic nomination and selection disputes; sponsorship and endorsement deals; gaming and wagering; playing contract and related employment matters; and matters relating to branding and the protection and exploitation of image and related rights. Darren also conducts a broad corporate and commercial practice, including the acceptance of instructions in defamation and employment disputes. Darren is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association and the British Association for Sport and Law.Darren is a former member of and the former Chairman of the NSW Combat Sports Authority (2017-2023), the deputy chairman and public officer of The Carbine Club of NSW, a member of the former Legal Committee of World Aquatics (2017-2022; World Aquatics is formerly Fédération Internationale de Natation or FINA: the international sports governing body for aquatic sports including swimming, water polo, diving, high diving, artistic swimming and open water swimming), and an arbitrator/conciliator member of the National Sports Tribunal of Australia. In addition, Darren is the Chairman of the Reform and Governance Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation, and a member of the Pro Bono Legal Panel of the Court of Arbitration for Sport; an Olympic Appeals Advisor appointed by the Australian Olympic Committee, and a member of the Appeals Panel of Harness Racing NSW. Darren is a sports columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and related Nine Newspapers (formerly Fairfax Media) publications throughout Australia