Legal Services for sport and business

The firm assisted an athlete that was found to have committed an antidoping rule violation after being tested positive for a specified substance. During the proceeding, the national antidoping prosecutor claimed that the athlete intentionally breached the rules and thus requested the imposition of a period of ineligibility of 4 years according to the applicable regulations. Following the reasonings and defensive arguments advanced by the athlete, the adjudicatory body ruled that the athlete’s conduct was unintentional and therefore limited the […]

Elite Law has assisted hundreds of agents, intermediaries, clubs and players over the years in connection with transfers of an international nature.  Among the many, the most egregious transfers in which we have been involved, both from a media and economic perspective, were those of Dutch national team player Frenkie De Jong from Ajax Amsterdam to FC Barcelona, that of striker Dušan Vlahović to Juventus FC, and that of Italian national team midfielder Niccolò Barella to FC Internazionale.  In these […]

Elite Law represented before the Basketball Arbitration Tribunal (BAT) a leading Greek Euroleague club in a dispute that arose following the dismissal of its coach, a former world-renowned basketball player, and his staff.  The peculiar aspect of the dispute was the interpretation of a clause in the contract, inserted by the club to encourage locally trained youngsters to join its first team, and the club’s right to raise a serious and persistent breach of that clause to dismiss the coach.  […]

We assisted the company of an internationally renowned British boxer in reviewing a contract with the organizer of a world tournament that took place with several bouts over the course of 12 months. In particular, we had to analyze the contract from the perspective of Swiss law, its applicable law and chosen by the organizer based in Switzerland. The analysis focused mainly on the internal relationship between the boxer and his company and with respect to the obligations assumed towards […]

Elite Law’s team assisted the International Chess Federation (FIDE) against one of its prominent members who had repeatedly misused its social platforms to channel political messages that had caused several media controversies. In the course of the lawsuit, we were able to prove that these messages had been issued by the athlete in his capacity as a member of the association and not as a private citizen, had crossed the threshold of the right to freedom of speech and expression, […]

We were involved in the joint defense with other colleagues of a world-renowned driver who tested positive in an anti-doping control for a so-called unspecified substance. Considering that in these cases the applicable regulations always hold the athlete responsible for what is found in his body, and that it is therefore up to the accused person to exonerate himself, the defense focused on finding evidence that could prove the absolute absence not only of intentionality but also of fault or […]