The subject of our activity is the provision to Clients of the full range of legal assistance necessary in carrying out their sporting activities.
Legal consulting in itself includes legal advising support, which allows to solve existing legal problems of the Clients and avoid potential ones, as well as to formulate a clear strategy for the development of their sporting activities in accordance with legislation and regulations on kinds of the sport.
Our highly qualified lawyers, who speak several foreign languages, have comprehensive professional training. First of all, we specialize in international arbitration and sports law. We provide a full range of legal issues related to the application of the Statutes and Regulations of FIFA and UEFA and the national football associations of European countries (including issues related to the implementation of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations, the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players and etc.).
We provide services to represent the interests of our clients in civil and arbitration courts of European countries, including the jurisdictional instances of the national football association, as well as in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (Switzerland). In particular, our practical experience, beginning in 2006, covers the successful resolution of such disputes as:
- disputes between a national football association of FIFA and UEFA; disputes related to the transfers of players; protection of business reputation of the football functionaries; defense and appeals of decisions made in the first instance of FIFA and UEFA etc. in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne;
- disputes on the contract for the implementation of television rights between national football association and foreign company in the International Court of Arbitration ICC in Geneva;
- disputes over the contract on the marketing and television rights o between national football association and foreign company in the Zurich Commercial Court;
- disputes related to the transfers of players; disputes related to the payment of players’ and coaches’ fees, etc. in the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players;
- disputes related to the imposition of disciplinary sanctions against football players, coaches, including those who related to doping, etc. in the Disciplinary Bodies of FIFA and UEFA;
- various categories of disputes (disciplinary and transfer disputes, as well as disputes related to the performance of the financial "Fair Play", etc.) in jurisdictions of the national football associations of European countries.
Based on our wide international experience, we provide our Clients with exclusive legal advice on the research of the transfer market of players around the world, provide exclusive information about the transfer status (the real cost of the transfer, the health status, the economic status of the counterparty's football club, etc.) And also inform other subjects of the transfer market about our Client, his professional, sporting purposes, infrastructure and economic possibilities, etc., in order to create an attractive image of the Client on the transfer market.
In addition, we provide professional legal support services for sports organizations. We help the Client to choose the organizational and legal form of the implementation of sports activities optimal from the point of view of creation (reorganization), costs, taxation and subsequent legislative regulation.
We provide consultations on corporate law in the process of sporting activities of our clients, including the operating procedures of the clubs administration, regulation and registration of the relationship between the founders in making various decisions related transfers of players, appointment (dismissal) of coaches, etc.
We provide services for conducting and documenting the reorganization, liquidation of legal entities, buying (selling) football clubs, changing the founders of football clubs, including the founders leaving, also the selling of shares, in the process of inheritance and on other grounds.