Practice areas
Law applied to the world of sport, for athletes, clubs and sports bodies.
Sport has its own rules and its own system of justice, which sit alongside ordinary law and do not always fit together neatly. Knowing that ground, its governing bodies and its deadlines (often very short) is what makes the difference.
We advise athletes, clubs, agents and sports bodies, both in their ordinary activity (contracts, representation) and when a disciplinary or financial dispute arises.
It is one of the areas the firm has trained for specifically (a Master's in Sports Law from the ICAB), where its usual rigour meets a close knowledge of the sector.
Contracts with clubs and sponsors, image rights, doping and disciplinary proceedings: defending a career before the federation, the TAD (Spain's administrative sports tribunal) or the CAS in Lausanne, with deadlines counted in days.
Day-to-day activity (statutes, governing bodies, signing athletes and coaches, sponsorship) and the disciplinary, electoral or financial dispute when it arises.
Representation and intermediation contracts, commissions and their recovery, and the relationship with athlete and club when interests no longer align.
Disciplinary and electoral rules, proceedings before the TAD and institutional advice.
The subject in detail. Disciplinary defence has its own page: sports discipline. Internationally, we act before the CAS in Lausanne, the leading arbitral body in sport.
Every matter is prepared with method: verification of sources, scrupulous attention to deadlines that here tend to be especially short, and a strategy defined before acting.
I do not promise outcomes; I do promise a defence that is prepared, diligent and attentive to the particularities of sports justice.
Discover my methodTell us about your situation and we will tell you, frankly, how we can help.
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