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Founder and director of LawInSport, Sean has written articles on the regulation of boxing, anti-doping, sports governance. He has also interviewed prominent figures within the sports and legal profession.

Sean studied sport science and law after working in the legal sector for 15 years. He passionately believes that providing easy to access high quality sports law content will help the sports community to combat the increasingly commercial and complex environment in which all levels of sport operate. He is also interested in developing new and innovative methods of distributing legal content without sacrificing the quality of the information. 

You can connect to Sean on LinkedIn.

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Kevin is Editor for LawInSport and a lawyer advising on commercial, intellectual property, dispute resolution and anti-corruption matters. He has been published in various academic journals, including being quoted in a report for the European Commission, and presented internationally on integrity, match-fixing and sports betting regulation. He has also been interviewed by Primetime News Asia in Singapore and recommended by INTERPOL’s Integrity in Sport unit. He has his own regular sports law blog which looks at a variety of sports law issues. Finally he is a qualified Football Association referee for 11-a-side, at the semi-professional level, and futsal, on the national list, as well as being an FA referee tutor. Kevin is a keen follower of all sports, especially football, rugby, motorsport, tennis and NFL.. You can connect to Kevin on LinkedIn

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Alfonso Valero is co-founder and now consultant of LawInSport.com. He is a dually qualified Abogado (Spanish Lawyer) and Solicitor (England and Wales). He is also a qualified International Arbitrator. He is a Senior Lecturer in Nottingham Trent University.

After beginning his career dealing with dispute resolution in Madrid, he relocated to England developing his work as lawyer in the areas of EU cross-border litigation and Sports Law in Nockolds Solicitors. He has been listed in Global Chambers 2012 as an specialist in Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property and Marquis Who's Who in the World.

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Adam (LLB Law, University of Birmingham) joined LawInSport in July 2012, becoming Editorial Assistant in September 2012. His focus is on careers and breaking into sports law. He has published articles on the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the Student Journal of Law.

Adam is a recent graduate and a future trainee in the London office of CMS Cameron McKenna. A member of BASL, Adam worked at the BASL Conference in 2012. He is a keen footballer, having captained the Law Society team at university, and also enjoys playing golf, running and swimming. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamPBeach and LinkedIn.

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Alex is a Senior Associate at Dentons specialising in the sports, technology and media sectors.

Alex's first involvement in sports related work was as part of the legal team which helped the FA Premier League defend its collective media rights selling arrangements before the UK and EU competition authorities and ultimately negotiated a landmark settlement with the EU Commission in order to end its long running investigations of FAPL. He has since acted for a number of other rights holders including the England and Wales Cricket Board, Scottish Premier League, the Football League and leading English and Scottish football clubs on issues related to the exploitation of their media rights. Alex represented the Football League in its intervention before the Competition Appeal Tribunal concerning the successful appeal by Sky and FAPL of Ofcom's decision to impose "must wholesale" obligations on Sky Sports.

As well as acting for a number of rugby clubs in the Guinness Premiership, Alexander represents a number of high-profile sportspeople. He also works with sports agents in both dispute resolution and contractual matters. He has considerable experience of a number of different dispute resolution forums and has personally undertaken advocacy on behalf of clients at hearings.

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Andrew Nixon is a Partner in the Sport Group at Sheridans. Referred to in this year's Legal 500 as a “very bright and talented sports lawyer” Andrew's practice focuses principally on regulatory, governance, disciplinary, arbitration and dispute resolution within the sport sector. Andrew's clients include governing bodies, sports clubs, sports agencies and individual athletes. He is  regularly called upon as an expert in sports law by media outlets such as BBC, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Channel 4 and ITV and is an accomplished sports conference speaker. Andrew is also Non Executive Director of the English Table Tennis Association.

Andrew Peters is an Associate in the Labour and Employment team at Squire Sanders, London. Andrew advises clients on the full range of employment law including both contentious and non-contentious issues. Andrew has advised on the employment aspects of the sale and acquisition of Premier League and Football League clubs as well as on the termination of several football and rugby clubs’ employees. Andrew is a member of Squire Sanders’ multi-disciplined Sports Law group, headed by Partner, Stephen Sampson.

Andrew is a barrister practising from Matrix Chambers in London.  He is an employment law specialist, and has a keen interest in sports law and sport generally.  

Andrew’s work in the field of sports law includes acting on behalf of the claimant in Iain Dowie v Charlton Athletic FC (2010), a case before the FA Premier League Managers Arbitration Tribunal.  Andrew also has experience of claims involving the Football Agents Regulations; and was instructed on a dispute relating to membership of the Professional Speedway Elite League (led by Rhodri Thompson QC). 

Arun heads up the fraud and risk team at Cobbetts LLP, and specialises in commercial litigation arising out of complex corporate fraud disputes. He deals with a broad range of fraud investigation and litigation, with particular focus on fraudulent misrepresentation claims.

Arun chairs regional meetings for the Fraud Advisory Panel and is a member of the Midlands Fraud Forum.

Ben is a Solicitor in Dispute Resolution (commercial litigation) at Cobbetts' Birmingham office. 

He works on general commercial disputes acting for both claimant and defendant. He also works as part of Cobbetts' Fraud and Risk Services Team, with a particular emphasis on fraud in the public sector.

As a former journalist, he also has expertise in defamation.

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Dr. Ben Van Rompuy is a senior researcher and consultant at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, Asser International Sports Law Center (The Hague) and senior associate researcher at iMinds-SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels). He holds a doctoral degree in law and masters’ degrees in international and European law and in communication studies. He has published widely on the interplay between sport, media rights, and EU (competition) law and regularly acts as a legal expert on these issues for media companies, sports organizations, and public authorities. His major work is Economic Efficiency: The Sole Concern of Modern Antitrust Policy? Non-efficiency Considerations under Article 101 TFEU” (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2013), which explores the role of considerations related to the specificity of sport in EU competition law enforcement.

Benoît Keane is a leading European lawyer. He specialises in European law and European competition law in particular relating to the media and sports sectors. Benoît represents clients before the European Commission and European Courts.

Benoît Keane is a qualified solicitor (England & Wales) who specialises in European law and European competition law. He is an experienced adviser on a range of European legal matters to public authorities, companies, sports organisations, industry associations and media bodies. He regularly acts in cases before the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.