Elle Nikou Madalin

CAS Arbitrator & Barrister

Elle Nikou Madalin specialises in commercial and corporations law, including insolvency, financial services, and competition and consumer law. 

Elle has advised and appeared in complex and large-scale litigation and arbitral proceedings for multi-national and domestic corporations; superannuation funds, major banks and financial services; family offices;  insolvency practitioners and private individuals in a diverse range of industries. 

In recent years, Elle has developed particular subject-matter expertise in cases involving software applications and platforms, blockchain, and other information technology; as well as the intersection between such technologies, commerce and financial services. 

Elle also has considerable expertise in sports and media law.

Elle is an arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport - the peak international body for dispute resolution in sports globally, seated in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Elle is also an arbitrator and Deputy Chair of Football Australia’s National Dispute Resolution Chamber; an arbitrator for the AFLPA;  an experienced independent investigator; a former Olympic selection panel chair; and has presided over dozens of ad hoc tribunals.