– Drafting and negotiating of sponsorship concepts and sponsorship agreements

– Advertising and endorsement agreements with individual athletes, sports teams and national squads

– Drafting of all kinds of event agreements (sponsoring of events, broadcasting rights, licensing, merchandising, event manuals, insurance)

– Legal advising of host cities and organising committees of major sports events

– Legal advising regarding sports congresses, conventions and assemblies of international sports organisations

– Comprehensive legal advise of sports marketing agencies with respect to agency and licensing agreements

– Protection and enforcement of trade marks, logos and signs of major sports events against ambush marketing

– Protection and enforcement of naming and image rights of athletes and teams

– Litigation before national and international sports arbitration panels and domestic courts. When it comes to proceedings before foreign courts, we rely on a network of specialists in the respective countries

– Legal advising and representation of associations, National Olympic Committees and athletes in disciplinary matters, including doping proceedings

– Assignments as arbitrators in domestic and international arbitration panels, including the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS)

– Drafting and negotiation of players’ contracts and transfer agreements in professional sports

– Regular legal advising of domestic and international sports associations and federations

– Support of transactions regarding sport businesses (e.g. acquisition of marketing agencies or professional sports teams)

– Setting and transfer of international sports organisations in/to Switzerland (including labour and tax issues)

– Designing of legal structures of domestic and international sports organisations, drafting of the necessary corporate documents (statutes, regulations, guidelines)

– Legal advise with regard to the planning and realisation of stadium projects, sports halls and other sports facilities