SPORTS

NOF provides multi-jurisdictional, transdisciplinary, and comprehensive sports law services to athletes and coaches, marketing and sport agents, sport clubs, leagues, federations, sponsors, sport event organizers, and broadcasters on a worldwide scale. Our sports team is blessed solid know-how, and experience, meanwhile enjoying long-established relationship with international sports governing bodies.

The firm’s sports advisory services focus on providing professional and innovative advice and assistance with respect to negotiation and draft of transfer, agency, distribution, marketing, and sponsorship contracts, association governance and regulatory issues, including draft of internal regulations and guidelines, media and broadcasting rights, disciplinary and doping proceedings, investigation, and competition organisation.

Our sports dispute resolution practitioners, relying on their sports law expertise and track record, having been involved in prominent cases before the CAS and other special sports judiciary bodies, such as FIFA, UEFA, IOC, BAT, and UCI bodies, deliver cutting-edge advice and representation in sports dispute resolution services, with a particular focus on arbitration and litigation, including asset freezing and attachment applications, and appealing CAS decisions before the Swiss Supreme Court.

NOF broad capability is harness with the firm’s exceptional international network of sports law experts, enabling the firm to support clients in the strongest and most efficient fashion, in Switzerland and across jurisdictions, within a wide range of sport areas, in particular with respect to football, cycling, racing, and athletics.