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).
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.
Anna is a Legal Director at Liga MX.
Barrister, Arbitrator & Mediator, 8 Wentworth Chambers
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.
Dan Mihai is the founding member of Mihai & Co Business Lawyers, a medium-sized independent full-service business law firm based in Bucharest, Romania and a member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2000.
Dan has a wide experience in providing legal advice and his main areas of expertise are sport law, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, commercial litigation.
Dan has a wide experience as Arbitrator, being appointed in prestigious national or international bodies in relation with sport arbitration or commercial arbitration. In this respect, he has been appointed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne at the end of 2024 as arbitrator on general list and also, he has been appointed by Sport Resolutions’ Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators for international causes since 2021. On national level he has been a member of the Commission of Appeal on Preventing and Combating Doping in Sport since Nov 2022; Dan has been member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Romanian Tennis Federation between 2022-2024 and also between 2019-2022 acted as a Member of the Appeal Panel of the Romanian Handball Federation, and has participated in over 80 appeals. As for commercial arbitration, In July 2023, Dan has been selected as a member of the EODID Athens Mediation &Arbitration Organisation and he acts as Arbitrator for the Permanent Court of Arbitration within AHK Romania since December 2021.
Dan regularly participates as speaker at conferences and seminars open to the public or specialists, on matters such as sport law, commercial law, labour law and GDPR.
Dan is currently the Secretary General of Proteus – an international network of law firms and also a Member of “REX Sport” (www.rexsport.org) since 2022.
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.
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Hibbett Sports
Partner, Llinks Law Offices
Despina Mavromati is a Swiss and Greek attorney-at-law based in Lausanne, a UEFA Club Financial Control Body Member and an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). She has extensive experience in international sports law and arbitration. She represents athletes, clubs and federations and advises on regulatory and sports governance matters, including the recognition and enforcement of awards and freezing of assets in Switzerland.
Despina has acted as arbitrator, counsel, co-counsel, expert or arbitrator in numerous sports arbitrations, involving contractual, governance, doping-related and other disciplinary and ethics matters. Recognized as a Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal in Switzerland every year since 2018, “Despina Mavromati is “brilliant and accomplished” and “an amazing lawyer with immense knowledge and expertise when it comes to disputes before the CAS” (Who’s Who Legal 2023).
Despina has co-authored the critically acclaimed Commentary of the CAS Code (with Matthieu Reeb) and has in-depth experience of the mechanics of sports arbitration tribunals. She is a former Member of the UEFA Appeals Body, the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal, the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation and has served as the Chair of the Independent Ethics and Disciplinary Commission of the International Weightlifting Federation (2020-2021).
Despina is a member of the bar in Vaud (CH) and Thessaloniki (GR) and a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). She holds a PhD from the University of Fribourg (CH), an LL.M. and an M.B.A. from the University of Saarland (DE) and a law degree from the University of Thessaloniki (GR).
Head of the Aviation Desk at C&F providing advice to major stake holders in the aviation business including legacy US and European major airlines; LCCs international and domestic carriers and ground services providers.
Expertise in regulatory matters and public procurement works as well as in high impact conflicts with material experience in cross border litigation (Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Panama, USA and Switzerland); class actions and high profile cases before the Supreme Court.
Arbitrator with the Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (Lausanne) and with the Argentine Chamber of Commerce (Buenos Aires).
Dr. AN Shouzhi is Managing Partner Anjie Broad Law Firm Xiamen Office. He specializes in International Trade and Commodities, Shipping, Sports Law.
Dr. AN has been dedicated to legal professional services for over 16 years, and has accumulated experience in multiple arbitration jurisdictions of CIETAC, HKIAC, SIAC, LMAA, SCMA, SHIAC, GAFTA, CAS, BAT, XMAC. 2015-2016,
Dr. AN interned and worked in the Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations, for the law of the sea, climate change and fishery issues. At the same time, he also worked as visiting scholar in Columbia University in the New York City, made the research on the topic of “Energy Security and Cooperation under One Belt and One Road Initiatives: Policies, Projects and Challenges”
The Honourable Dr Annabelle Bennett AC SC is a retired Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and was an additional judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT and a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, having previously practised as a Senior Counsel specialising in intellectual property. She is currently an Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport; Member of the Board of Directors of the Garvan Institute; Chair of Gardior Pty Limited (Trustee of the Infrastructure Fund); Member and past President of Chief Executive Women; Member of the Board of Directors of the Community Migrant Resource Centre; and Member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Until early 2024 Dr Bennett was Chancellor of Bond University and Chair of the ANSTO Board. She has also served as a Commissioner with the NSW Law Reform Commission and as a Royal Commissioner into National Natural Disaster Arrangements. Dr Bennett is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Science and Australian Academy of Law.
Dr Bennett is a Member of the WIPO Mediation and Arbitration List of Neutrals and a Member of the indicative List of Government and Non-Governmental Panellists for the WTO Disputes Settlement Process. She also practises as a Barrister, in an advisory role, and as a mediator and arbitrator.
Dr. Anna Bordiugova is a former professional track athlete, acted as athletes’ agent to Ukrainian track athletes. Fluent in four languages, she studied law in Kyiv and was called to the bar in 2009. She has 20+ years of practice as a sports lawyer on national and international levels, involving all kinds of dispute resolution, governance and regulatory matters, anti-doping, match-fixing etc. She has extensive experience in representing athletes, clubs and federations, she was involved in a number of working groups drafting laws and governmental acts pertinent to sport issues. She has significant experience as a panel member in a number of national and international sports bodies.
Anna is a lecturer in the Highest school of advocacy of Ukraine, and has published or co-authored several articles and books on sports law issues in leading law and sport journals in Ukraine.
She is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (General and Football Lists) and a member of the World Athletics’ Disciplinary Tribunal.
Director of Legal & Sport Administration, Legia Warszawa
Senior General Counsel, VfB Stuttgart
