Alexis Schoeb is a partner at Peter & Kim, an international law firm based in Switzerland, Korea, Singapore and Australia.

A Swiss-qualified attorney-at-law, Alexis has considerable experience as both arbitrator and counsel in complex commercial proceedings with high financial and media implications.

He is a recognised arbitrator, appointed to the list of arbitrators of several arbitration institutions (ICC Switzerland, THAC, WIPO, Sport Resolution UK, etc.).

Over the past 10 years, Alexis has been regularly appointed as an arbitrator in international commercial disputes involving, among others, construction, agency, distribution, licensing, joint venture and media contracts.

Since 2018, he has been a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over which time he has been appointed in over 60 CAS proceedings.

As counsel, Alexis has advised and represented high profile clients including elite athletes, agents, some of Europe's biggest football clubs and international sports federations.

André has been a lawyer since 1987 and is the managing partner of Amsterdam based boutique law firm BrantjesAdvocaten. His Specialties are Litigation and Arbitration, Labour- Commercial and Sports law.

He is an Arbitrator of the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) Lausanne and was appointed in December 2014.

He is a Member of the Dutch Arbitration Association (NAI).

André is the Co founder of the Sport & FEC (Financiële Economische Criminaliteit) chamber of the IFFC (Institute for Financial Crime).

Recommended by WHO’s Who legal 2021 as global leader in Sports law.

Barbara A. Reeves, Esq. serves as a mediator and arbitrator in complex business and employment litigation pending throughout the United States, including antitrust and employment class actions, litigation involving mergers and acquisitions and partnerships, healthcare industry claims, including claims arising under the False Claims Act, intellectual property disputes including patents, copyrights and trade secrets, consumer class actions, cybersecurity and cyberbreach matters, environmental coverage cases, and other commercial disputes.

Ms. Reeves has experience conducting domestic and international arbitrations under various institutional rules, including JAMS, JAMS International, ICC, ICDR, AAA, CPR, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She was a member of the AAA Complex Case Panel, prior to joining JAMS.

Before becoming a full-time neutral, Ms. Reeves had an extensive and varied litigation and business counseling practice, clerking with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Hon. Alfred T. Goodwin), as a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. and as Chief of the Los Angeles Office, a partner at national law firms, and as Associate General Counsel and Vice President for Southern California Edison and Edison International with responsibility for litigation and regulatory matters, as well as Procurement/Supply Chain, Real Estate and Transportation. 

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators (President-elect 2022-23), and a certified mediator with the International Mediation Institute. She is also a certified e-discovery specialist. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Blondel Thompson is a barrister at St Philips Chambers. She grew up in a household of athletes, she is a former British Junior Record Holder and Senior British and Commonwealth Record Holder. Two of her brothers, Garry and Keith were professional footballers, whilst another brother, Glyn, represented the Marines in athletics, football, cricket, basketball and volleyball  All of this combined has enabled Blondel to develop an expertise in Sports law.

As a former British and Common Wealth record holder in athletics, two brothers who made their living from professional football and a son who is a former World Indoor Champion at 400m has enabled Blondel to develop an expertise in Sports law.

She prosecutes and defends a variety of cases from Murder and Manslaughter to offences under the Theft Act. In a recent case, she defended one of four defendants facing an indictment containing 51 counts of historical rape, buggery, indecent assault.

Blondel also has experience in being briefed on criminal matters concerning the International Criminal Court. In September 2017, Blondel was instructed by the Prosecutors Office at the ICC to travel to Uganda to assist a witness prior to giving his evidence in the ongoing war crimes trial of Ongwen.

In 1998 she became a Panel Judge member for the Disciplinary Tribunals of UK Athletics. In 2010 Blondel was appointed as arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, (based in Lausanne Switzerland). She is also a Panel member for the Inns of Court from which Disciplinary Tribunals of the Bar are drawn.

Partner, Llinks Law Offices

Efraim Barak was born in Argentina (1957) but lives most of his life (since 1964) in Israel, where he grew and was educated. He completed his law degree in the Tel Aviv University in 1987. On same year he became member of the Israeli BAR. Efraim is also an Honorary Member of the BAR of Buenos Aires.

Until 31/12/2017 he was the Senior Partner at D.Mirkin & Co. and was the founder & the head of the Sport law department in that firm.  

On 2018, he established his own firm, Efraim Barak Sport Law & Consultancy, to deal exclusively with sports law and institutional sports consultancy, with a special focus on international sports law.

He has practiced sports law for more than 25 years and has substantial practical experience in advising and representing athletes, clubs and sports organizations nationally and internationally. Since 2007, he is involved in many academic activities, including as a creator and founder of Sport Law programs and is constantly invited to speak at congresses and seminars on sports law worldwide. 

As a CAS arbitrator since 2005, he has been appointed (until the end of 2022) to deal with more than 380 sport-related arbitrations (including as president of the panels and as sole arbitrator). Within his role as a CAS arbitrator, he has been a member and president of panels in high-profile cases, and dealt with a variety of different topics in the field of sports and sports law, such as governance and regulatory matters, commercial and employment disputes, media rights disputes, and disciplinary matters including doping cases, match-fixing cases and others.

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Arbitrator/Barrister, 4 New Square

Counsel, Arent Fox

Markus is a partner at Hanness Snellman. He focuses on compliance, M&A and company law related cases, as well as general commercial dispute resolution.

Markus advises clients in their internal and external compliance investigations and enforcement proceedings. He represents clients in M&A disputes relating to purchase price adjustments, damages claims, and share redemptions. In the field of general commercial disputes, Markus has litigated and arbitrated cases relating to e.g. international trade, insurance contracts, lease agreements, and employment contracts. He has extensive experience on injunction proceedings.

Markus regularly represents Finnish and foreign corporations in both domestic and international ad hoc arbitrations, as well as in arbitrations administered by various institutional rules (including FAI, ICC, SCAI, and SIAC). In addition, Markus frequently serves as an arbitrator in both ad hoc and administered arbitration proceedings. He is repeatedly ranked in the Best Lawyers® list for Finland (Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation and Sports Law).

Markus has unparalleled experience in the field of sports law. He has advised foreign and Finnish top level sports clubs in cases relating to sponsorship, player, coach, and stadium agreements. Furthermore, he has represented a leading stadium company and a major sports gear company in different sports-related disputes. Apart from being a versatile lecturer on sports law related topics, Markus has published several articles on the subject. In addition, he serves as a CAS arbitrator.

Massimo Coccia is founding partner of Coccia De Angelis & Associati law firm. He holds a J.D. degree cum laude from the Law School of the University of Rome Sapienza (1981) and a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the University of Michigan Law School (1984), which he attended with a Fulbright fellowship.

It is universally recognized that Mr. Coccia has an extensive experience of, and is an authority in, sports law and in commercial arbitration at international and national level, both as an arbitrator and as a counsel, as attested by Who’s Who Legal (https://whoswholegal.com/massimo-coccia); indeed, along the years he has been involved in almost 400 arbitration proceedings, most of them at international level. He also has been frequently involved in regulatory matters such as antitrust and energy, as well as in entertainment law issues. Within sports law he is frequently retained as legal advisor or counsel by international and national federations, leagues, clubs, teams, agents and athletes of various sports. Within football, in particular, Mr. Coccia held the no. 2 position within the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in 2006-2007, when he was appointed as Interim Vice-Commissioner in the wake of a match-fixing scandal and authored important reforms of the rules and governance of FIGC. Since 1995, Massimo Coccia has been an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where he is regarded as one of the most experienced arbitrators, having sat in about 300 cases and drafted many prominent awards, having also been a CAS arbitrator at the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, Turin 2006 and London 2012.

Massimo Coccia is also a tenured law professor, teaching International Law at the Tuscia University of Viterbo as well as European Competition Law at the University of Rome Sapienza. Massimo also frequently teaches in graduate courses and seminars on international and national sports law. He has published extensively on issues of sports law, international arbitration, international trade law and EU law, and is often invited to speak at symposia on those subjects.

Mr. Coccia’s mother tongue is Italian and he also is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Michael Beloff KC has appeared in international commercial arbitrations (in London, Brussels, Geneva and Monte Carlo), and sat as a commercial arbitrator under the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC and Geneva Chamber of Commerce, as well as an ad hoc arbitrator.

He has given expert evidence on English law and practice for the purpose of proceedings in various states in the USA, in the Irish Republic, in the Republic of South Africa, France, Norway and Switzerland.

He has carried out inquiries for Oxford University into alleged plagiarism, for two television companies, Channel 4 and Carlton, into the making of two controversial broadcasts, and for the Rugby Football Union into alleged racism.

He has been identified in various legal publications as a leading figure in the fields of public, local government, commercial, defamation, insurance, arbitration, civil liberties, agricultural, EU, sport, human rights, environmental, education, immigration and employment law.

He has written a standard commentary on the Sex Discrimination Act 1976 and Sports Law (2nd ed 2012). He was a consultant editor (with Lord Woolf) for the journal Judicial Review (1996 – 2015) and has been the first and only editor of Sweet and Maxwell’s International Sports Law Review (2000 - present). He has also contributed to Halsbury’s Laws on Time and Sport and Atkin’s Court Forms on Sport.

Positions Held

• A Recorder of the Crown Court (1984-95)
• A Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn (1988)
• Treasurer of Gray’s Inn (2008)
• A Deputy High Court Judge (designated to sit in the Crown Office list) (1989 - 1996)
• Member of the Data Protection(National Security)Tribunal - (later renamed a Judge of the Upper Tribunal 2000 - 2012)
• A Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey (1995 – 2014)
• Senior Ordinary Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey (2005 - 2014)
• Commissioner of the Royal Court of Jersey 2014-2018
• First Chairman of the Administrative Law Bar Association from 1986 – 1989 (since then Vice-President and Chairman emeritus)
• President of the British Association of Sport and Law (2005 – 2013)
• Joint head of Chambers at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square (1992-2000), before moving back to Blackstone Chambers, his original set (then 2 Hare Court) in 2000.
• A Member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport ("CAS") (1996 – present) during which time he has been party to more than 175 awards.
• As a member of ad hoc panels of CAS, he has been an arbitrator at 5 summer Olympic Games - Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, Rio and 3 Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur, Manchester, Melbourne
• Deputy Chairman of the Information (National Security) Tribunal (1997 - 2012) (renamed from 2010 Judge of the Upper Tribunal)
• A Steward of the Royal Automobile Club (1999 – 2018) and a Vice-President 2018-
• Ethics Commissioner for London (2012) successful bid to host the summer Olympic Games
• Chairman of the International Cricket Council’s Code of Conduct Commission (2002 – present) and of the ICC Dispute Resolution committee (2015 - present)
• A Judge of the FIA’s International Court of Appeal (2010 - 2017)
• Member of the three-person European Golf Tour Anti-Doping Appeal Panel (2012)
• Chairman of the International Association of Athletics Federation’s Ethics Commission (the world governing body for athletics) (2013 - 2020)
• First Chairman of the IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal (2017 - 2019)
• Member of the Anti-Doping Appeal Panels of Mixed Martial Arts and Ironman (2016)
• Chair of the Ethics Commission of the International Ski Federation 2022-
• Foreign Consultant to the Law Counsel, Dacca, Bangladesh
• Member of the International Panel of the Singapore Mediation Centre
• Member of the Provost's Panel at Eton

Pekka is currently a counsel at the Helsinki based law firm Dottir Attorneys and an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He is specialized in football and his experience includes eight years of practicing as a lawyer specialized exclusively in football matters.