Sports law

Advice for individual athletes

We partner with individual athletes (whether they compete in individual or team sports) to help them at the outset, in the course and at the end of their sporting career. We provide them with all legal advice and assist them in various life situations that are more or less related to sport.

Youth

We assist parents of young athletes in negotiating the terms and conditions and later in concluding youth player contracts. We strive to ensure fair conditions to help young athletes develop their potential and start their sporting careers.

Professional athletes

We cooperate with athletes from the beginning of their professional sporting careers. We assist them in arranging the relevant trade licence and in dealing with all related obligations.

We provide advisory services and participate in the negotiations of player contracts. We strive to achieve the best and fairest possible conditions to ensure a sufficient salary package, material support, suitable training conditions, adequate healthcare and competition workload for the athlete.

We also advise and represent athletes in allegations of doping and other violations of sporting rules before club arbitration panels, national and international organisations and federations.

We supervise the transfer of an athlete from one team to another at the national and international level, assist in its implementation and protect the athlete’s rights.

We negotiate with sponsors, agents, associations and other national and international organisations and federations in the athlete’s interest. 

Amateur athletes 

We advise amateur athletes in all areas of amateur sport, especially regarding their rights and obligations when participating in non-professional competitions.

Personality rights of athletes

We protect the personality rights of athletes. When drafting and negotiating contractual terms and conditions relating to sponsorship, marketing, advertising and media rights, we strive to ensure the best possible conditions for the athlete so as to avoid unduly interference with the athlete’s personality rights.

In the event of an unduly interference with the personal rights of athletes, we actively take steps to seek redress and recover any related claims of the athletes.

Compensation for damage in sports

We provide comprehensive advisory services to all athletes, both recreational and professional, who deal with a sports injury or other event causing damage to the athlete.

We make sure that, in the event of an injury or damage to sports equipment, the necessary steps are taken to recover all claims of the athlete, especially claims for compensation. We can’t fix health, but we will do our best to ensure that the athlete can focus on their recovery and leave all the legal aspects related to the sports injury to us. 

We make sure that the rights of the athlete causing the sports injury are also protected. We negotiate with the injured party and seek to reach a fair settlement, including fair compensation.

We negotiate with insurance companies regarding the investigation of insurance claims and payment of insurance benefits.

What issues do we typically handle for clients in relation to individual athletes?

• I have been accused of a doping violation, what should I do?
• Conclusion of youth player contracts
• Obtaining a trade licence in connection with professional sport
• Negotiating the terms and conditions of player contracts
• Transfer of athletes to another team and related legal requirements
• Legal advice in all areas and sectors of sport
• Arranging the relevant trade licence
• Negotiations with teams, sponsors, national and international organisations and federations
• Representation in negotiations with sponsors and sponsorship agreement templates
• Representation in disputes and disciplinary proceedings
• Legal consultation on whether a player contract has been breached
• Representation in case of a breach of a player contract
• Inserting transfer clauses into player contracts
• Agent bonuses and signing bonuses
• Early termination of player contracts
• Disputes between athletes and sports agencies
• Negotiations with insurance companies in the event of a sports injury
• Business and marketing rights of players
• Disputes between athletes and agents
• Assessment of marketing performance during major sporting events (Olympic Games)
• Contracts with minor athletes
• Advice on rights and obligations when participating in non-professional competitions
• Representation in international arbitrations
• My personality rights of an athlete have been violated, what should I do?
• Protection of athlete’s personality rights
• Negotiations with foreign sports associations
• Negotiations with the insurance company regarding the investigation of an insurance claim
• Recovery of athlete’s claims, especially claims for compensation