New Editorial Board Member – Nick De Marco
We are delighted to welcome Nick De Marco, a sports lawyer and barrister at Blackstone Chambers, as the latest member of our Editorial Board.
Nick has advised and acted for a number of sports governing bodies, athletes, most Premier League football clubs and many world-class football players in commercial disputes as well as regulatory and disciplinary hearings. He regularly appears in the UK Courts and football, rugby, cricket, boxing, athletics, horseracing, doping and a number of other arbitral and disciplinary tribunals, including CAS in Switzerland.
Nick is acknowledged as having special expertise in all aspects of football and has been involved in most of the recent high profile cases in the sport. He has particular expertise in financial regulation including financial fair play, disputes relating to football agents, player disputes and disciplinary issues, commercial disputes between clubs and third parties and Third Party Ownership of football players.
Nick also has a special interest in sports arbitration. He acted for the ECB in the leading case in the field (ECB v Kaneria) and continues to act for and against a number of sports regulatory bodies in respect to issues touching on the scope of sports arbitration, amongst other things. He also sits as an arbitrator in various sports including as the Chair of the Judicial Panel of British Wrestling, being a member of the RFU Disciplinary Panel, acting as an FA Rule K sole arbitrator, sitting as a member of the disciplinary board of the Football Conference and acting as a Judicial Chairman of the County FA Anti-Discrimination Panel. Nick was previously a Director of Queens Park Rangers FC (2007), a club he still actively supports.
You can view Nick’s full profile here.
