In the increasingly complex and commercialised world of sports, clients require legal consultancy on a number of issues including, but not limited to:
- Sponsorship, merchandising and license agreements;
- Restructurings of sports associations and clubs, particularly in football;
- Advertisement law;
- Commercial utilisation of sporting events;
- Employment law in sports;
- Anti-doping and other disciplinary related actions, e.g. match incidents, transfer-related matters, enforcement procedures, breaches of statutes, eligibility issues, etc.;
- Compliance and good governance of sports organisations;
- Sports betting and gambling, prevention of match-fixing;
- Law of federations and associations as well as general corporate law;
- Liability and indemnification;
- Media rights;
- Protection of personality and intellectual property rights;
- Marketing, ticketing and hospitality;
- Sports regulatory law as well as data protection regulation;
BODENHEIMER Representative Matters In The Sports Sector
Restructuring of a football club from an association into a limited liability company
Acting as sole arbitrator in an DIS anti-doping arbitration proceeding in a case relating to boxing
Advising a football coach in negotiations relating to his employment contract with a professional football club
Represented a national football federation in a CAS arbitration in a case against an international sports governing body
Represented a professional athlete from the U.S. in malpractice claims before the German state courts against two German physicians
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