Partner, Bird & Bird LLP

Queen’s Counsel, 4 New Square

Barrister, Bar of Ireland

Barrister, 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square and King’s Chambers

Associate, Mills & Reeve LLP

Lecturer & Teaching Fellow, University of Waikato

Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Suzanne is a partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and represents sports national governing bodies and international federations in domestic and international arbitration and in internal grievance proceedings, including in the areas of athlete protection, “opportunity to compete” and selection challenges, compliance claims, doping cases, and a wide array of other disputes within the Olympic and Paralympic Movement and sports more broadly. Since she joined the firm, she has represented over twenty sports organizations in over ninety of these types of disputes.

Suzanne is well known for her work designing and implementing athlete protection policies on behalf of both professional and amateur sports organizations. In addition, she regularly advises sports clients on the development, implementation, and enforcement of bylaws, selection procedures, and other organizational rules, policies, and procedures. Suzanne has also played a key role in obtaining recognition and sanctioning for new and emerging sports, and maintaining the good standing of existing sports in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement.

As part of her sports practice, Suzanne regularly advises clients on nonprofit formation, governance, board disputes, and other issues unique to nonprofit organizations.

Prior to joining Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Suzanne served as a judicial clerk for Judges Richard Gabriel and Russell Carparelli on the Colorado Court of Appeals. She is a former course record holder in the Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb Ascent (2015) and was the 2012 Professional Women’s New York State Road Race champion in cycling.

Theo Barclay is a commercial barrister at 4 New Square. He focuses on sports litigation, particularly in the world of football. He appears for and against Premier League football clubs, rightsholders and regulatory bodies in litigation and international arbitration

Tim Naylor is the Director of Integrity and Regulation at the British Horseracing Authority and Independent Non Executive Director at Football Association of Wales.

Barrister, The Bar of Ireland

Managing Partner, Krida Legal

Vincente is an associate at ASD Law. 

Barrister, 2 Temple Gardens

Professor Zachary Calo is Professor of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at The Open University (UK), Professor of Law (Adj.) at the University Notre Dame Australia - Sydney, Visiting Professor of Sports Law at Tashkent State University of Law (Uzbekistan), Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, and Lecturer in Sports Law at the Qatar Olympic Academy. He serves on international dispute resolution panels with Sport Resolutions UK and the Qatar Sports Arbitration Tribunal. 

He formerly practiced banking law at a financial service, criminal and civil enforcement defense law firm in Washington DC, United States.