International arbitration

International commercial arbitration

Having permanent collaboration with the foreign partners very often one may have controversies, caused by misinterpretation, wrong execution or application of the foreign economic agreements or rules of applicable law.

Such legal preventive measures as worked out foreign economic agreements, containing arbitration clause are a kind of legal stability in the relations between partners, but not the guarantee of controversies absence.

Timely legal assistance at the controversies arising will help you to take correct steps, appropriate for the situation.

We will help you in such areas:

• Legal analysis of the agreements and other documents applicable for the controversy;
• Definition of the questioned matter and settlement of dispute prospective;
• The arbitration place and applicable arbitral procedure determination;
• References on the arbitration procedure;
• Representation of the Client’s interests;

“Sport” arbitration and “sport” law

The service is our company exclusive proposition. The subjects of our legal support are: legal persons and individuals, which have direct or indirect bearing on sport (athletes, sport organizations, athletic clubs owners and others).

Legal support of the indicated subjects can be made in following areas:

• Preparation of the package of documents for the sport organization registration as a legal person, including statute and local documents elaboration of the federations/unions/associations and other sport organizations;
• The statutes of sport organizations adjustment to the current legislation;
• Personal non-property rights protection of the sport movement (honor, dignity, business reputation and so on.);
• Legal support of the sport organization during sport and showcase events;
• Legal support of the public sport organizations’ activity;
• Preparation and elaboration of:
  1. Contracts on sport activity;
  2. Transfer contracts as well as documents for the registration of relations during athletes’ transfer from one club to another;
  3. Agreements on advertising;
  4. Agent agreement;
  5. Contracts with coachers and other specialists;
  6. Elaboration of the dispute settlement rules, which appear within sport organization (extrajudicial procedure of the dispute settlement);
  7. Arbitral agreement composing;
  8. Other documents.
• Representation of the sport movement subjects at Court of Arbitration under “Sport Arbitration Chamber” Independent Non-profit (Moscow), Sport Arbitration under Chamber of Commerce (Moscow), Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (Switzerland);
• Arrangement of relations among sport subjects and sponsors;
• Arrangement of relations between sport organizations and TV and radio companies during broadcasting the competitions on local TV-channels and radio stations (elaboration, participation in negotiations and preparation of agreements on broadcasting, legal support during the journalists’ accreditation and so on.);
• Drug test issues;
• Elaboration of local sport organization regulatory rules (job descriptions, regulations on bonuses, regulations on emblem and other means of sport organizations visual identification, rules of internal order and so on);
• Informational support of the sport movement subjects (searching for the information, regulatory support and so on);

The International legal consulting department specialists are highly qualified and have great experience in this area, including:

• Legal support of football transfers (selling or hiring the football players);
• The Russian Federation Artistic gymnastics federation representatives, which were accused in the drug abuse at the Court of Arbitration for Sport;
• The Russian Paralympics Committee representation at the international organizations and international conferences;
• Participation in working group for the federal law “On physical training and sport in the Russian Federation” elaboration.

Legal support in all the indicated areas can be provided also in English.