The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Ltd. is a private company created to mount the 2012 Olympics Games and Paralympics. Accommodating 14,700 athletes, 21,000 media workers and nearly 11 million ticket holders required a work force of 200,000 people, including 6,000 staff, 70,000 volunteers and 100,000 contractors, and a £2 billion budget. Construction of the venues was handled by a sister organization, the Olympics Delivery Authority. Organizers raised the money mostly through sales of tickets, sponsorships and merchandise.
LEGAL TEAM
General Counsel Terry Miller supervised about 32 lawyers “17 were my core team and the rest were seconded from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in what was a first for the Olympics a law firm appointed as an official Olympics provider,” she said. “As a sponsor, it provided people with special skills, especially property law, on secondment; plus others did hourly work, as well. They handled all our venue use agreements. It was a huge advantage for us.”
