SPORTS LAW

Do you need a sports law consultation?

Sports law is an area of law that deals with specific relationships arising in connection with the organisation of sporting activities. In this area, we often deal with legal issues regarding the relationship between athletes and sports clubs, issues related to doping, athletes' liability for damages during a competition or match, athletes' relationships with sponsors, injury and insurance issues, and more.

Sport is a growing social phenomenon, often of considerable economic importance. The law as applied to sport industry relations often takes a different approach from general principles. For example, if you are a professional player, you may deal with certain limitations on contractual freedom, as well as stricter principles of contractual stability, dispute resolution, etc.

Are you looking for legal help regarding a sports club?

We will provide you with comprehensive legal services related to the establishment, change or dissolution of a sports organisation, including registration in the public register. We will prepare contracts with sponsors, marketing agreements and contracts with athletes. We will provide you with legal representation before courts, arbitration tribunals, national and international commissions.

We can also help you assess whether your club meets the public benefit requirement. This is important if you want to apply for grant money as a public benefit society. We will provide you with a legal service to prepare grant applications, including representation before the relevant authorities.

Our solicitors work in dedicated teams and we guarantee to respond to your enquiry within 24 hours.

Looking for help with a sports contract?

Our specialists also deal with the thorny legal issue of the nature of the contractual relationship between the athlete and the club. The practice comes up against the view of some theorists about the exclusive dependent nature of the relationship between the athlete and the club. In other words, if you are an athlete, you should be an employee of your club. This view is highly debated and has its opponents, especially amongst the athletes themselves and the clubs, for whom it means an increased financial burden.

We believe that these cases need to be dealt with individually and each with special attention. We will set up the right legal relations right from the start, thus avoiding any possible unpleasantness with the tax office.

If you are a top athlete, you are often dealing with more than the conclusion of a contract between you and the club. We can also advise you on registration with the relevant competition organisation or association, without which it is not possible to operate professionally in the sport.

Are you at risk of disciplinary action for doping? Are you going to transfer to another club?

In addition to the main issues, our law firm can advise you on a number of other issues related to elite sport. It is also often necessary to consider the boundary between legal regulations and the internal rules of sports organisations, which regulate the relationships themselves to a certain extent.

We will provide you with legal assistance in protecting your rights in sports organisations. We also represent clients in doping allegations and defending against them. We will also provide legal assistance if you are an athlete transferring between clubs, both nationally and internationally.

What legal services we provide:

• Applying for grant money as a public benefit society - procedure and public benefit requirement.
• sports contracts
• legal regulation of doping
• federal law and sport
• legal liability in sport
• adjudication of disputes in sport - arbitration courts
• player contracts, transfers and guest appearances of professional athletes, including insurance, sponsorship and advertising
• representation in sports arbitrations and recovery of athletes' fees owed to sports clubs