SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Michele Spadini

Admitted as UE/AELS established lawyer in Switzerland and registered at the Bar of Verona, Italy. Before joining Elite Law, he specialised in international transport law at one of Italy’s leading transport law firms. He works in English and Italian and has a basic knowledge of Spanish.

Passionate about football, padel, tennis, athletics, cycling, travel and mountains.

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Experience

Attorney-at-Law “ELITE LAW SA”
Lugano (CH 2017 – today)

Member of the Board of the Team Ticino
(CH 2019 – 2021)

Consultant “LT Sports Law”
Lugano (CH 2016 – 2017)

Associate “Studio Legale Riguzzi, Silingardi & Associati“
Modena (ITA 2012 – 2015)

Trainee lawyer “Studio Legale Baldin”
Verona (ITA 2009 – 2012)

Education

“Dall’Informatica Giuridica al Legal Tech”
Fondazione Forense (ITA – 2022)

Executive Programme “International Sports Law”,
Ravello (ITA – 2015)

Specialisation course in “Sports Law and Economics of Sports”
Roma (ITA – 2015)

Law degree,
Università di Verona (ITA – 2009)

Publications

Covid e Just Cause: the FIFA  jurisprudence in “AIAS Veneto Newsletter” (2021)

Chapter on Italy in Transfer of Football Players. A practical approach to implementing FIFA rules, published by Sports Law and Policy Centre (2020)

The FIFA regulations on the Protection of Minors in view of the Barcelona Case in “Rivista di Diritto ed Economia dello Sport”, published by Sports Law and Policy Centre (2015)

Membership

ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA AVVOCATI SPORT (AIAS – ITA)

Speaker

“The international Football Law”
Haute Ecole Arc Neuchâtel Berne Jura, (CH – 2021)

“FIFA RSTP, rules and practical cases”
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Master in diritto sportivo e rapporti di lavoro nello sport (2021)

“FIFA RSTP, practical applications and jurisprudence”
Top Legal Academy, Master in Sports Law, I edizione, Milano (ITA 2021)

News on Michele Spadini

  • December 20, 2022

    Michele Spadini admitted to the FIFA’s Executive Programme in Anti-Doping

    Michele Spadini has been admitted to attend the FIFA’s Executive Programme in Anti-Doping (2nd edition) which will take place in Zurich (Switzerland) and Paris (France) over the months of March, April and May 2023.

  • January 1, 2022

    Michele Spadini lectured at the HEG Arc Neuchâtel

    Michele Spadini ha tenuto una lezione sull’articolo 17 FIFA RSTP e relativi casi pratici agli studenti del corso di diritto sportivo dell’istituto Haute École de Gestion Arc di Neuchâtel.

  • February 1, 2021

    Michele Spadini co-authored a legal article on the legal aspects of COVID-19

    Michele Spadini co-authored a legal article on FIFA jurisprudence on Covid-19 as a possible just cause for terminating players’ employment contracts.

  • February 1, 2020

    Michele Spadini on the Board of the Team Ticino Association

    Michele Spadini was appointed as a committee member of the Associazione Team Ticino, an association for the development of high-level youth football in Ticino (Switzerland).

  • January 1, 2020

    Sports Law and Policy Centre publication on player transfers

    Luca Tettamanti and Michele Spadini are the authors of the chapter on Italy in ‘Transfer of Football Players’ edited by Sports Law and Policy Centre, 2020