We provide advice and litigation legal services for athletes, intermediaries, coaches, investors, sponsors, clubs, associations and federations operating in sport.
Our approach is passionate, competent and always up-to-date. We are pragmatic, dynamic and helpful professionals. We can be combative or mediators, depending on the case. We want to be clear and understandable to our clients: we get straight to the point about everything you need.
In detail:
- transfers
- employment law issues
- endorsement and sponsorship contracts
- matters of exploitation of athletes’ image rights
- brokerage and agency/represenation contracts
- financial fair play and club licensing
- sports statutes and regulations
- federative and economic rights
- disciplinary matters
- anti-doping issues
- issues related to results on the playing field
- issues related to new technologies
How we help you
We assist you in matters requiring decisive legal advice: negotiating and/or drafting contracts in national or international transfers, commercialising athletes’ image rights, drafting sponsorship agreements between athletes and brands, legal advice for sports investments, regulating relations for joint business between several parties or for the organisation of events, advice for market access (e.g. obtaining and renewing licences), writing and/or revising statutes and sports regulations.
We work on the resolution of contractual and disciplinary disputes before ordinary courts and before sports courts and arbitration tribunals: Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS/CAS), Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT), Dispute Resolution Bodies & Disciplinary Bodies of FIFA, Bodies of football confederations (UEFA, AFC, etc.), Bodies of national & international sports federations (FIBA, FIVB, UCI, FEI, ITF, FIDE, etc.)
