Alexander Engelhard is a dispute resolution and commercial lawyer advocating before state courts and arbitral tribunals, especially in the sport, media and entertainment industry. He also acts as arbitrator and mediator. In addition, he advises clients on the drafting of contracts, rules and regulations.
He is a member of various arbitration and sports law-related organisations. He is also a lecturer at the University of Frankfurt for German and international arbitration, as well as on dispute resolution in national and international sport.
JUVE Handbook 2018/2019: highly recommended lawyer for dispute resolution.
Track Record:
- Counsel/ad-hoc clerk in more than 80 national and international arbitrations, e.g. before the ICC Court of Arbitration, German Institution of Arbitration (DIS/DIS-Sport), Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT), and others.
- Counsel in disciplinary and financial disputes before judicial organs of sport governing bodies, incl. FIFA DRC, FIFA PSC, FIFA Ethics Committee, UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body, UEFA Appeals Body.
- In 2020, serving as arbitrator in high-stakes arbitration between a professional football club and the German Football Association (DFB) over the continuation of the league during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Member of the Sport Resolutions' Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators.
- Acting legal advisor of the EuroLeague Players Association (ELPA).
- Advised international and national governing bodies (incl. IOC, FIBA, FIVB, ISSF, AFFA, CPB) as well as sports clubs (e.g. from the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Turkish Süper Lig, Greek Super League) on regulatory, labour and financial issues.
- Counsel for national and international athletes, coaches and agents
Andreas Desyllas is a lawyer admitted at the Athens Bar Association and currently occupied in a prominent law firm in Athens, Greece. He concluded his traineeship period in the General Secretariat of Sports of the Hellenic Republic. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master’s degree in Public International Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law, specialized in international arbitration, sports law and human rights. His professional interest is mainly focused on the fields of civil, commercial and sports law, as well as arbitration. He has extensive experience in moot court competitions, both as participant and as arbitrator.
Barrister, Matrix Chambers
Appeals Chairman, member of Scottish Football
Association disciplinary panel
Claude Ramoni has been a founding partner of Libra Law since 2009. He is a lawyer at the bar of the Canton of Vaud (Switzerland), whose specialties are representation and advice in the fields of sports and business law, benefiting from nearly twenty years of experience in these fields.
He advises and represents clients in the field of sport, such as national and international federations, clubs and athletes in various fields, in particular with regard to doping. He regularly acts as counsel before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the legal bodies of sports federations or Swiss state courts, including the Federal Court. In addition, he advises companies in their commercial activities; he regularly carries out various merger-acquisition transactions; he is particularly active in advising companies or entities active in biotech and in the field of health.
Claude Ramoni is also on the board of directors of various start-ups, while being a member of the UEFA Appeal Committee.
David Edet is an Associate Counsel in the dispute resolution and international arbitration practice group of Dorothy Ufot & Co, a leading Nigerian full-service law firm where he specializes in dispute resolution, particularly in energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, mining, construction and joint venture.
David is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom, the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Centre (SVAMC), the Asian International Arbitration Centre Young Practitioners Group (AIAC – YPG) as well as several other international arbitration associations.
David has acted as Tribunal Secretary in several high volume institutional and adhoc arbitrations taking place Africa. He has also taken part in international arbitration conferences as panelist and moderator. David regularly acts as a facilitator in international arbitration programs such as the Institute for Transnational Arbitration Mentoring Program and as an arbitrator in international moots such as Willem C. Vis Moot, the Sports Law Arbitration Moot and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Moot.
Jarret Huang, Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, University of Oxford
Jarret is a Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, University of Oxford. He is concurrently a Non-stipendiary Lecturer at The Queen’s College, Oxford. He will be joining One Essex Court in Q4 2023.
Jarret has several years of legal experience working in Singapore, including as State Counsel for several arbitrations and arbitration-linked matters, and as a Deputy Public Prosecutor prosecuting a whole gamut of serious offences. Jarret has particular expertise in fraud (both civil and criminal), and, in the context of sports law, has dealt with syndicated sports fraud and sports gambling-related offences.
Jarret is also experienced in investor-state and treaty arbitration, and previously assisted the Chief Justice of Singapore on a speech covering investor-state disputes while serving as a law clerk to the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Professor of Clinical Law/Director of Externship
Programs, Brooklyn Law School at Brooklyn Law School
Founder/Partner, Vandellos Sports Law
I am an award winning Legal Practitioner, currently working as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at World University of Bangladesh. I possess 9 years of experience, of working in the corporate sector having previously worked in roles such as Chief Legal Officer, Legal Advisor, Legal Counsel and Legal Officer. I also work as a Panel Mediator and ADR Counsel for Centre for International Alternative Dispute Resolution (CIADR) and Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC).
I am also a UK and Singapore accredited Mediator, having received accreditation in 2018 and a member (MCIArb) of Chartered Institute of Arbitrator (CIArb) since 2018 and a member of International Bar Association (IBA).
Barrister, Kings Chambers & 2 Temple Gardens
I am an experienced regulatory sports lawyer, working as a Senior Associate in Media, Entertainment & Sports Group at Bird & Bird in London.
Having trained and qualified as a lawyer in Australia, I began my sports law career in 2014 with a highly respected sports law firm in the UK, where I spent almost 8 years prior to joining Bird & Bird in 2022.
I have acted for numerous athletes, clubs, agents and directors in disputes heard before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), FIFA Football Tribunal, UEFA Disciplinary Committee, FA Regulatory Commissions, and other tribunals. I have also served as an ad-hoc clerk on numerous matters before the CAS, including in cases involving UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules, anti-doping and the retrospective disqualification of Olympic Games' results due to failed doping tests. As a result, I have significant experience in international sports regulatory / arbitration matters, and specifically in proceedings before the CAS.
I have advised clients on matters in tennis, golf, sailing, boxing, rugby league and cycling, but I specialise in football having advised numerous football players, clubs, agents and players' unions worldwide on a variety of legal issues. I have advised parties in dozens of international and domestic football transfers, and I am the co-author of a chapter (about the rules in England) in the sports law practitioners' textbook, 'Transfers of Football Players: A practical approach to implementing FIFA rules' (International Sports Law and Policy Bulletin 1/2020).
I am experienced in betting/match fixing matters, having acted for both individuals defending such charges, and sports governing bodies prosecuting such matters. I have also acted on ethics / corruption related matters involving high profile directors of sports world governing bodies, having defended complaints filed before an Ethics Commission and acted as an ad-hoc clerk in a 'FIFA-Gate' case before the CAS.
Aside from acting as legal counsel for parties, I also have experience acting as an arbitrator in sports disputes. I am a member of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Arbitral Board and Disciplinary Commission and have been a member of the England Boxing Disciplinary Panel since 2017.
I am a qualified solicitor in New South Wales (Australia) and I am also dual qualified as a Chartered Accountant, which allows me to provide a unique insight to clients on financial matters in sport. I also hold a Master of International Sports Law (LLM) from ISDE (Madrid, Spain). Prior to working in sports law, I spent almost 4 years working in the Corporate Tax / M&A team at PwC (Sydney, Australia).
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