Alain Zahlan de Cayetti is professional arbitrator and strategic consultant. Attorney-at-law, former member of the Bar of Paris for more than 25 years and of the Bar of Luxembourg, Alain specializes in international arbitration and mediation and in international corporate and transactional matters.

His expertise encompasses, in particular, international trade and finance, corporate and tax restructuring, FinTech and cryptocurrencies, intellectual property, cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He has an extensive experience in sports law and is a registered arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport and with many other international arbitration centers, operating in both common and civil laws.

Alain is regularly invited as panelist and has published several papers on international alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and on the recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards. He is a regular lecturer at Sorbonne University (Abu Dhabi) and Paris-Saclay University (France).

Director, Gymnastics Ethics Foundation; Independent Arbitrator and Sports Governance Expert

Alex sits as arbitrator in sports and commercial disputes and is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne. He advises international sports governing bodies on governance reform. He is a frequent speaker on sports arbitration and governance matters in particular.

Alex has held a number of leadership and legal roles including as CEO of the International Equestrian Federation, general counsel of a multinational IP licensing business and adviser to the World Economic Forum. He initially practised international arbitration and litigation with Baker & McKenzie in New York.

Alex holds a JD from the Duke University School of Law, where he was articles editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, Haverford College (BA Economics) and the International School of Geneva (IB).  He is a member of the New York Bar.

André has been a lawyer since 1987 and is the managing partner of Amsterdam based boutique law firm BrantjesAdvocaten. His Specialties are Litigation and Arbitration, Labour- Commercial and Sports law.

He is an Arbitrator of the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) Lausanne and was appointed in December 2014.

He is a Member of the Dutch Arbitration Association (NAI).

André is the Co founder of the Sport & FEC (Financiële Economische Criminaliteit) chamber of the IFFC (Institute for Financial Crime).

Recommended by WHO’s Who legal 2021 as global leader in Sports law.

Andrea Carska-Sheppard is general counsel in charge of legal affairs for Workplace Options LLC. The employee wellness is new global mega trend and Workplace Options LLC as global leader now serves 200 countries and territories with many innovative products which universally promote health, fitness, wellness and employee effectiveness.

Trained in both common law and civil law at McGill Law School, Andrea has lived and practiced law in several countries. She is licensed lawyer in New York State, Canada (Ontario), the Solicitor of England and Wales and a European Registered Lawyer. She is international arbitrator, board member of several professional and business association, including member of the executive committee of New York State Bar Association’s International Law Section. Building on her previous career in sports and fluent in several languages, she globally advocates for promotion of women in sports and on work-life balance.

Anna is a Legal Director at Liga MX.

Barrister, Arbitrator & Mediator, 8 Wentworth Chambers

Barbara A. Reeves, Esq. serves as a mediator and arbitrator in complex business and employment litigation pending throughout the United States, including antitrust and employment class actions, litigation involving mergers and acquisitions and partnerships, healthcare industry claims, including claims arising under the False Claims Act, intellectual property disputes including patents, copyrights and trade secrets, consumer class actions, cybersecurity and cyberbreach matters, environmental coverage cases, and other commercial disputes.

Ms. Reeves has experience conducting domestic and international arbitrations under various institutional rules, including JAMS, JAMS International, ICC, ICDR, AAA, CPR, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She was a member of the AAA Complex Case Panel, prior to joining JAMS.

Before becoming a full-time neutral, Ms. Reeves had an extensive and varied litigation and business counseling practice, clerking with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Hon. Alfred T. Goodwin), as a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C. and as Chief of the Los Angeles Office, a partner at national law firms, and as Associate General Counsel and Vice President for Southern California Edison and Edison International with responsibility for litigation and regulatory matters, as well as Procurement/Supply Chain, Real Estate and Transportation. 

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators (President-elect 2022-23), and a certified mediator with the International Mediation Institute. She is also a certified e-discovery specialist. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

CAS Arbitrator & Public Policy Advocate 

Barry is an international corporate lawyer. He recently retired from the partnership at the global law firm of Latham & Watkins after practicing with the firm for over 35 years. He led the Latham & Watkins’ International Practice Group for many years. In addition, he was founding president of the Los Angeles Center for International Commercial Arbitration and founding chair of the International Law Section of the California State Bar Association. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Board of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. In April 2001, he was awarded the Learned Hand Award for outstanding leadership in the legal profession.

He is Chairman of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games. This organization is independent from the United States Olympic Committee and has been engaged in promoting the Olympic Movement since 1939. As Chairman, he led the effort to bid for the 2016 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In September 2007 he received the Olympic Spirit Award from the United States Olympic Committee and the William May Garland Award from the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games. As a supporter of amateur sports in Southern California, he represented the Los Angeles Sports Council, the America’s Cup Organizing Committee, the LA84 Foundation, the San Diego (“ARCO”) Olympic Training Center, the Special Olympics and the Los Angeles Olympics Sports Festival. He headed the legal team for the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee in its bribery scandal. He served on the Board of Special Olympics of California. He is now a Director of the Los Angeles Sports Council and of the Los Angeles Sports Council Foundation. He serves as an arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Founder & Attorney at Law - BP Sports Law

Born in 1966, Mr. Welten is Attorney at law. He graduated from the University of Bern, Switzerland in 1995 and finished Duke Law School, Durham, NC, the USA in 1999. He is founder and partner of the law firm KanzleiWelten, Berne. He speaks German, English, Italian, French, and has a basic understanding of Spanish.

Mr Welten is a Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) arbitrator in international sports law cases; he experienced over 120 cases as sole or party appointed arbitrator respectively president of the panel. In February 2018 he was a member of the CAS ad hoc Panel at the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.

In 2020 Mr. Welten was named as President of the Association of Internationale de Boxe Amateure (AIBA) Ethics Commission. He also serves on the License Commission for Swiss Football League and has served on the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique disciplinary commission, the Swiss Olympic Association Anti-doping Commission and the Swiss Cycling doping sanctioning commission.

He is a member of the Bernese, Zurich, and Swiss Bar Association, Union International des Avocats, International Bar Association, Associations Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA), Court of Arbitration for Sport, and Rotary.

Blondel Thompson is a barrister at St Philips Chambers. She grew up in a household of athletes, she is a former British Junior Record Holder and Senior British and Commonwealth Record Holder. Two of her brothers, Garry and Keith were professional footballers, whilst another brother, Glyn, represented the Marines in athletics, football, cricket, basketball and volleyball  All of this combined has enabled Blondel to develop an expertise in Sports law.

As a former British and Common Wealth record holder in athletics, two brothers who made their living from professional football and a son who is a former World Indoor Champion at 400m has enabled Blondel to develop an expertise in Sports law.

She prosecutes and defends a variety of cases from Murder and Manslaughter to offences under the Theft Act. In a recent case, she defended one of four defendants facing an indictment containing 51 counts of historical rape, buggery, indecent assault.

Blondel also has experience in being briefed on criminal matters concerning the International Criminal Court. In September 2017, Blondel was instructed by the Prosecutors Office at the ICC to travel to Uganda to assist a witness prior to giving his evidence in the ongoing war crimes trial of Ongwen.

In 1998 she became a Panel Judge member for the Disciplinary Tribunals of UK Athletics. In 2010 Blondel was appointed as arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, (based in Lausanne Switzerland). She is also a Panel member for the Inns of Court from which Disciplinary Tribunals of the Bar are drawn.

I have worked in the area of dispute resolution since 1992. I have acted as a mediator and/or arbitrator in a broad variety of areas including employment, human rights, sports, property assessment, personal injury and workers compensation. I also provide advice on harassment and conflict of interest and ethics issues for governments and corporate entities. I have conducted harassment investigations for territorial, municipal and federal governments and for universities.

A member of the Canadian Association of Distinguished Neutrals, I am currently a mediator and arbitrator for the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

I have been a member of the Employment Standards Tribunal in British Columbia since 1992 and am an arbitrator under the Canada Labour Code. I am a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Adjudication Tribunal, which adjudicates disputes regarding the non-observance of contracts with the Commonwealth Secretariat.

I was an adjudicator with the Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat for over 10 years, deciding claims for compensation for sexual and physical abuse at residential schools.

I am a domestic and international panel member with the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre and a panel member with the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre.

I am a member of the Ethics Committee of the International Floorball Federation and a member of the Judicial Board of World Sailing.

I am a former member of the B.C. Law Society Discipline and Credentials Hearing Panel and a current member of the Inquiry Committee for the British Columbia College of Oral Health Professionals.

Carolyn primarily represents public and private employers in defending employment-related matters, including Title VII litigation. She does extensive training in the employment area for employers. Carolyn is a frequent contributor to legal publications on topics involving employment and personnel issues. She earned her B.A. degree from UALR and her J.D. degree, with honors, from the UALR School of Law. She is a former President of the Arkansas Bar Association and former Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section. Carolyn is a long-time member of the American Bar Association, where she served as former Chair of the Commission on Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts and is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section.  She is a former member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, a past Chair of the Arkansas Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, Union Internationale des Avocats, Women in Sports Law, American Employment Law Counsel, and is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Carolyn is an arbitrator of The Court of Arbitration for Sport and a member of the American Arbitration Association Roster of Employment Arbitrators and Mediators. Carolyn was inducted into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in 2019.

Daniel F. Visoiu, Esq., B.C.S. (International Law), is a member of the Florida (USA) Bar, and has been registered with the Bucharest Bar (a European Union (EU) jurisdiction) since 2006. He is also a Board Certified Specialist in International Law. 

Daniel has been working in the Central and East European (CEE) region since 1997, focusing on cross-border/M&A transactions, having assisted numerous well-known multinationals, investment funds, founders/entrepreneurs and high-net worth individuals.  Daniel has substantial arbitration experience, including ICSID and ICC disputes, is an arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland (www.tas-cas.org), a Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (www.ciarb.org) and is a Recognized Arbitration Practitioner on The Legal 500 Arbitrator Powerlist 2021 Central and Eastern Europe. His pro bono activities include serving as the president of the Romania-U.S. Fulbright Commission’s (www.fulbright.ro) board of directors (2012-2015) and as the current Secretary General of the recently-established Bucharest International Arbitration Court (BIAC) (www.bucharestarbitration.org).  He has lectured in the U.S. and the UK on international sports arbitration and ICSID (investor-state) arbitration.

Daniel Cravo is Attorney, enrolled inOAB/RS (Bar Association) with number 34,417, graduated in Law from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS in 1994. Partner ofCravo, Pastl and Balbuena Associated Attorneys.

He is President of the Special Committee on Legislation and Sports Law of OAB/RS (Brazilian Bar Association – Rio Grande do Sul section) and Lecturer at several seminars and courses related to law and management, including some abroad. He is coordinator of the International Congress on Contemporary Sports Law, 2009, 2011 and 2013 editions and co-coordinator of the Sports Law Core of Escola Superior da Magistratura of AJURIS. Co-president of the Task Group on Sporting Regulations of the International Association for Football Lawyers (AIAF).

Former legal adviser of the Brazilian Tennis Movement (responsible for the change in the command of CBT) and former member of the Regional Council of Sports of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (CRD), he provided services to several Brazilian and foreign clubs, associations, agents and players. Acting frequently before the Sports Courts and Higher Sports Courts, as well as in international cases  before FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS-CAS).

Full-time Arbitrator since 1976, serving on arbitration panels maintained by the: American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Mediation Board, New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, New Jersey State Board of Mediation, New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, New York State Employment Relations Board, Pennsylvania Mediation Board, Suffolk County Public Employment Relations Board, Delaware Public Employment Relations Board. Currently serve as a Permanent Panel Arbitrator for Anheuser-Busch and IBT; ATT and CWA; Beth Israel Medical Center and 1199; Brooks Bothers and RDWSU; NYC Laundry Industry and UNITEHERE; Liz Claiborne and UNITEHERE; Miami Air and AFA; Major League Baseball and MLBPA; New York City Transit Authority and ATU; New York City Transit Authority and Transit Supervisors Organization; New York City Transit Authority and TWU; Northwest Airlines and AFA;; Supermarket Industry and UFCW; Suffolk County and Suffolk County PBA, and others.

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Hibbett Sports

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