Director of Legal & Sport Administration, Legia Warszawa

Senior General Counsel, VfB Stuttgart

Janos is a partner at Kende, Molnár-Bíró Katona and a CAS arbitrator

Senior Lecturer in Law, Edge Hill University

He is currently working as the Director of Arbitration and ADR for North Asia at the International Chamber of Commerce where he is responsible for ICC’s marketing and educational programs relating to arbitration and ADR in North Asia region, namely PR China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Mongolia, DPRK, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Managing Partner, Özkurt Law Offices

Ercus Stewart is a Senior Counsel (Barrister) and Arbitrator (international and domestic). He was called to the Bar of Ireland in 1970 and to the Bars of Northern Ireland, England, Wales and New South Wales. He became Senior Counsel in 1982 and has practised at the Bar since 1970. His practice includes Commercial and Civil Law, Contract, Employment Law and also International and Domestic Commercial Arbitration. He practises from Chambers at The Law Library, 145 Church Street, Dublin 7, Ireland - (Located alongside the Four Courts).

Ercus Stewart writes and lectures extensively on Arbitration Law and Employment Law.

Partner, Advokatfirmaet Nova DA

Fabio Iudica specialises in national and international sports law. He carries out consultancy activities for national and international athletes, agents, coaches, clubs, leagues and federations on various issues relating to the sector. He has been teaching since 2004 as a professor of commercial law and financial market law at the Faculty of Economics of the Milano-Bicocca University. Since 2012 he has been an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) in Lausanne. He is a speaker at numerous sports law conferences around the world and has published several articles on the subject. He is also a federal judge in several National Sports Federations such as Italian Angling and Diving Activities Federation and Italian Timekeepers Federation

Chairman, FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber & Partner/Founder, BMDW Advocaten

Hans Nater is a senior partner with Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte AG, Zurich. He graduated from the University of Zurich in 1970 and wrote a doctoral thesis in the area of product liability. He was admitted to the Bar in 1972. In 1973, he received his LLM from Harvard Law School.

He is a litigation and arbitration specialist and is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and on the list of Swiss ICC Arbitrators. He has served as a member of the CAS ad hoc Division at the 2002, 2004 and 2006 Olympic Games.

Mediator, Arbitrator and Referee/Special Master, JAMS, Former regional senior justice for the East Region of Ontario & Former Olympian Athlete

• Cassazionista, solicitor, has been practising for 26 years with particular reference to civil and labour law, as well as sports law, the developments of which he has been following for many years as a scholar and enthusiast of the subject.
• A lecturer at the University of Padua since 2004, he is currently in charge of the teaching of European Sport Policies and Integrity (Degree Course in Sport Sciences, funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus + Jean Monnet programme), and of Law and Management of Sport Activities (Degree Course in tertiary sector law at the School of Law).
• He was awarded 4 European Jean Monnet modules during his university career and a Research and Information activities from the EU Commission.
• Expert in sports law in both consultancy and litigation, lecturer of the subject in various university Master’s courses and further training courses, including for sports managers. He has participated as a speaker in over 280 Conferences and Seminars in Italy and abroad.
• Author of more than 25 essays, articles and monographs, he published the volume ‘Sports Law and Policies in the European Union: Social Role, Economic Dimension and Integrity’ for CLEUP in 2016; he was recently in charge of the sector on International Sports Law and its in-depth study, as well as editing the preface, of the text ‘Sports Law’, published by Giappichelli in 2020. He has also commented on Article 50 of the FIGC Code of Justice, ESI, and is editor of the chapters on Sport Justice in Cycling and the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the volumes ‘Justice in Sport’, 2022.
• He has been a member of the CAS-TAS, Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, since 2007, with particular specialisation in doping and football litigation having handled over 160 international arbitrations. He was a member of the Ad Hoc Divisions for the World Cup in 2014 in Brazil and 2018 in Russia and the Euro 2020 European Football Championship.

• He was President of the Federal Court of Appeal, Section II, of the Cycling Federation of Italy from 2009 to 2021 and was President of the Arbitration Board for the Resolution of Disputes between Players, Members and Clubs at the Lega Serie B (pursuant to Article 4 of Law 91/1981 on professional sports) from 2011 to 2021.
• He is currently President of the Federal Tribunal of the Italian Tambourine Ball Federation.

James is a full-time arbitrator, with a practice covering a wide range of international commercial and sporting disputes.

James has extensive experience in international commercial arbitrations (whether as sole or co-arbitrator or chairman) under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) and the Swiss Arbitration Centre (SAC), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations.  He is a member of ICC (Australia), the LCIA, a fellow of the CIArb, a fellow of the Australian Centre for International Arbitration (ACIA), a member of the CIArb’s Presidential Panel, and a chartered arbitrator.

His recent appointments in the commercial arena have included disputes in areas such as: commodities and international sale of goods, energy, oil rigs, finance, share sales, corporate fraud, joint ventures, limited liability partnerships, insurance/reinsurance, and international infrastructure projects.  His recent commercial appointments are listed below.

James also has had extensive experience in sport arbitrations and is a member of the panel of arbitrators for the Court of Arbitration for Sport (in Lausanne) (CAS) and of Sport Resolutions (SR). His recent appointments in sport arbitrations are listed below.

Independent Consultant & Former Director of Football Regulatory, FIFA

Principal, Soubliere Sports Law

Mr. Mishkin joined Skadden's New York office in 2000, after serving as executive vice president and chief legal officer of the National Basketball Association for seven years. For many years, he has represented the NBA as its chief outside counsel.

Mr. Mishkin has participated in every major legal decision that has affected the NBA in the past 35 years — first as an associate and then as a partner in private practice with a large New York firm, and later as the head of the NBA’s in-house legal department. He has been involved in every round of collective bargaining negotiations between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association, and he directed the NBA’s legal effort in its 1998-1999 labor dispute with NBA players.

As executive vice president and chief legal officer, Mr. Mishkin oversaw every aspect of the NBA’s legal affairs, including all litigation, labor relations, commercial transactions, legislation, and enforcement of the league’s intellectual property rights and its anti-drug program, personally trying and arguing the NBA’s most important cases, including NBA v. Williams (an antitrust and labor law case regarding the NBA’s salary cap); Chicago Professional Sports and WGN v. NBA (an antitrust case involving the league’s national television rights); and NBA v. Motorola (an intellectual property case closely watched across the country concerning the unauthorized transmission via pagers and the Internet of real-time scores and statistics of NBA games).

Since coming to Skadden, his sports practice has expanded to include representation of the PGA TOUR, National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, United States Tennis Association, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Collegiate Licensing Association, Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, Denver Nuggets, Miami Heat and many other sports organizations. Among other notable matters, Mr. Mishkin successfully represented the PGA TOUR in Morris Communications v. PGA TOUR, an antitrust case in which the Eleventh Circuit upheld the right of the PGA TOUR to prohibit the unauthorized sale of real-time golf scores.

Mr. Mishkin was named a “Litigator of the Week” by The Am Law Litigation Daily (September 19, 2013) for his work on behalf of the four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the National Collegiate Athletic Association in securing an affirmance by the Third Circuit of a permanent injunction preventing the state of New Jersey from authorizing gambling on the leagues’ athletic events. He also serves as an arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jens is a Professor, dr.jur. at Aarhus University and CAS Arbitrator.

Jingzhou Tao is the Managing Partner at Dechert LLP responsible for developing the firm’s Asian practice. He has more than 28 years of experience in advising Fortune 500 companies on China-related matters. His areas of practice include international mergers and acquisitions, arbitration, and corporate work. Jingzhou has represented major Chinese, European, Japanese, and American companies in hundreds of transactions in China on such matters as merger and acquisition; tax planning; strategic alliances; and intellectual property protection. He has acted as counsel, chief arbitrator, or party-nominated arbitrator in international arbitration proceedings involving merger and acquisition, letters of credit, construction projects, management contracts, joint ventures, technology transfers, trademark licensing agreements, agency agreements, and international sales of goods.