{"id":5574,"date":"2023-11-21T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T21:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgilaw.com\/news-services\/sports-law\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:09:25","slug":"sports-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bgilaw.com\/en\/services\/legal-services\/sports-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the services offered by the Sports Law Department we highlight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clubs: Advice to clubs on contracts, player transfers, disciplinary procedures, electoral processes and any other matter related to club activities. Specifically:\n<ul>\n<li>Creation of sports clubs<\/li>\n<li>Employment counseling and volunteer law<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of collaboration agreements<\/li>\n<li>Defense in arbitration proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Image rights and audiovisual rights<\/li>\n<li>Advice to sports schools and recreational campuses<\/li>\n<li>Defense in disciplinary proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of bylaws and regulations<\/li>\n<li>Advice and preparation of advertising, sponsorship and crowdfunding contracts.<\/li>\n<li>e-Sports. Advice on all matters<\/li>\n<li>Naming rights<\/li>\n<li>Negotiation and contracts for players and trainees.<\/li>\n<li>Advice on training rights according to FIFA<\/li>\n<li>Advice on international transfer and first registration of minors<\/li>\n<li>Processing of residence permits for players and coaches<\/li>\n<li>Advice and defense in disciplinary proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Legal defense against lawsuits and complaints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Federations: We can work on federations&#8217; electoral processes, contracts with suppliers and sponsors, instruct disciplinary procedures, give legal support to the decisions they make, both at the competitive level and in their relations with affiliates. Among others:\n<ul>\n<li>Development of regulations (disciplinary, competition, training rights, electoral, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Employment counseling and volunteer law<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of collaboration agreements<\/li>\n<li>Defense in arbitration proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Image rights and audiovisual rights<\/li>\n<li>Instruction of disciplinary proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of bylaws and regulations<\/li>\n<li>Advice and preparation of advertising contracts<\/li>\n<li>Regulation of e-Sports in the federation.<\/li>\n<li>Advice on transparency and good governance<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of selection criteria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sporting events: We can prepare contracts, registration of trademarks and logos for events, advice on advertising, drafting of event regulations. Among others:\n<ul>\n<li>Creation of companies and startups<\/li>\n<li>Employment counseling and volunteer law<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of collaboration agreements<\/li>\n<li>Advice on consumer, data protection and sports health law.<\/li>\n<li>Image rights and audiovisual rights<\/li>\n<li>Consultancy for sports leisure events<\/li>\n<li>Advice on administrative licenses<\/li>\n<li>Defense in consumer arbitration<\/li>\n<li>Elaboration of event regulations<\/li>\n<li>Protection of brand, logo and club name<\/li>\n<li>Legal advice on criminal and civil liability for the event<\/li>\n<li>Naming rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Services to athletes:\n<ul>\n<li>Employment counseling<\/li>\n<li>Defense in arbitration proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Advice on training rights<\/li>\n<li>Image rights and audiovisual rights<\/li>\n<li>Advice to High Level Athletes (DAN). Registration in the special social security regime<\/li>\n<li>Defense in disciplinary proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Advice and preparation of advertising and sponsorship contracts.<\/li>\n<li>Defense in sanctions for doping, match-fixing or illegal betting Advice on the Plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Services to representatives:\n<ul>\n<li>Defense in CAS\/CAS proceedings<\/li>\n<li>Preparation of contracts<\/li>\n<li>Creation of companies for the representation of athletes<\/li>\n<li>Advice on representation of minors<\/li>\n<li>Preparation of representation contracts<\/li>\n<li>Preparation of transfer contracts<\/li>\n<li>Advice on the FIFA Player Transfer Statute<\/li>\n<li>Advice on representation commissions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the services offered by the Sports Law Department we highlight: Clubs: Advice to clubs on contracts, player transfers, disciplinary procedures, electoral processes and any other matter related to club activities. Specifically: Creation of sports clubs Employment counseling and volunteer law Elaboration of collaboration agreements Defense in arbitration proceedings Image rights and audiovisual rights Advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5307,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports lawyers: athlete and club representation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Specialized legal services for athletes, clubs, and sports entities. 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