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MAT JESSEP
Principal Lawyer
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Mat Jessep is a military trained leader and commercial lawyer, integrity specialist, and educator with over 15 years’ experience helping clients protect, strengthen, and grow where performance, fairness, and reputation are critical.
Since 2019 Mat has built and run his own independent firm, Game Legal, delivering trusted advice to clients across Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Europe, the UK, and the USA.
As Principal Lawyer, Mat works with leaders who know that legal advice and governance compliance aren't about ticking boxes — they are about protecting reputation, unlocking opportunity, and driving performance. Whether advising a major sporting organisation, an esports team, a content creator, an investor, a start up, or a high-growth company, Mat delivers solutions that are sharp, commercial, and actionable.
As a corporate and commercial lawyer, Mat has deep expertise in managing a broad range of legal and governance matters, including:
- Corporate structuring
- Shareholder/member relations
- Capital raising
- Regulatory compliance
- M&A transactions and asset sales
- IP protection and commercialisation
- Commercial contracts
- Athlete, employee, and contractor engagement
- Dispute resolution
As well as considerable experience working as a sports lawyer for more than a decade, since 2016 Mat has also worked as an advisor in esports. Mat understands the unique pressures facing these organisations: rapid growth, complex player dynamics, safeguarding, regulatory uncertainty, and maintaining competitive fairness and stakeholder trust. Mat's track record speaks for itself.
Through hands-on leadership as an integrity consultant, Mat also helps organisations not just manage integrity risks but embed a true culture of integrity that drives sustainable success. His practical experience spans the full range of framework development and management:
- Value definition
- Policy development and drafting
- Education and training program delivery
- Stakeholder engagement
- Incident management and complaint investigation
- Findings and sanctioning
- Hearings and dispute resolution
Mat has also designed and taught legal and integrity education courses at leading Australian universities, including 'Esports and the Law', 'Sports Law', and 'Sport Integrity & Ethics' at Melbourne Law School, the University of Technology Sydney, and Victoria University.
If you need an experienced lawyer and integrity consultant who can deliver trusted leadership, legal precision, and a deep understanding of sport, esports, media, and business across jurisdictions, Mat is ready to help.
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