Sports law

Sports law

Sport is an economic factor today. Legal issues in this area are correspondingly important. But what is sports law?

Sports law is only an actual legal discipline insofar as it concerns the rules for the organization of sports competitions. Numerous international sports organizations such as FIFA are associations under Swiss law, which can intervene in the legal sphere of affiliated sports clubs or athletes with quasi-sovereign powers. For example, an athlete can be banned for doping offenses, or an insufficiently financed football club can be denied a competition license. In a broader sense, however, sports law also encompasses many other areas of law such as employment, social security and tax law, tenancy law and antitrust law.

Sports law.

Strengthening sports law expertise through commitment and specialist knowledge

Thanks to years of involvement at various levels, beelegal has significantly strengthened its sports law expertise. These include, for example, specialist publications by Dr. Philipp Engel in the field of "Sponsorship contracts" and the recently published dissertation by Dr. Kathrin Albrecht on "Bonuses in professional football". In addition, Dr. Philipp Engel and Dr. Markus Bösiger hold lectureships at the University of Krems in the field of "Sports Organizations and Association Jurisdiction".

Daniel Engel has been General Secretary of the Board of Directors of the operating company FCZ AG for many years. In 2012, Dr. Markus Bösiger was appointed as a judge at the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. As part of GLOBALADVOCATEN, beelegal has initiated the establishment of a Sports Practice Group, which will hold its first international conference in Zurich in spring 2017.

And this is what Ancillo Canepa, President of FC Zurich, says

"Sports law has become a complex matter. This means that there are always issues that tie in with other areas of law. We are therefore pleased that we have been able to rely on beelegal as a committed, competent and reliable law firm for many years."