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Jordi López Batet

Jordi López Batet is a partner at Statim Legal, SLP. Till the end of 2022, he had been a partner at Pintó Ruiz & Del Valle since 2008 and a managing partner at the firm since 2015. Jordi focuses on advising national and international clients in IT, media, advertising and data privacy, among other areas. He is an arbitrator at the Barcelona Arbitral Court, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the Football Tribunal; a member of the Union Cycliste Internationale Anti-Doping Tribunal (UCI ADT); and a teaching professor on several master’s degree courses and other courses at several universities.

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Fabio Iudica

Fabio Iudica specialises in national and international sports law. He carries out consultancy activities for national and international athletes, agents, coaches, clubs, leagues and federations on various issues relating to the sector. He has been teaching since 2004 as a professor of commercial law and financial market law at the Faculty of Economics of the Milano-Bicocca University. Since 2012 he has been an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) in Lausanne. He is a speaker at numerous sports law conferences around the world and has published several articles on the subject. He is also a federal judge in several National Sports Federations such as Italian Angling and Diving Activities Federation and Italian Timekeepers Federation

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Efraim Barak

Efraim Barak was born in Argentina (1957) but lives most of his life (since 1964) in Israel, where he grew and was educated. He completed his law degree in the Tel Aviv University in 1987. On same year he became member of the Israeli BAR. Efraim is also an Honorary Member of the BAR of Buenos Aires.

Until 31/12/2017 he was the Senior Partner at D.Mirkin & Co. and was the founder & the head of the Sport law department in that firm.  

On 2018, he established his own firm, Efraim Barak Sport Law & Consultancy, to deal exclusively with sports law and institutional sports consultancy, with a special focus on international sports law.

He has practiced sports law for more than 25 years and has substantial practical experience in advising and representing athletes, clubs and sports organizations nationally and internationally. Since 2007, he is involved in many academic activities, including as a creator and founder of Sport Law programs and is constantly invited to speak at congresses and seminars on sports law worldwide. 

As a CAS arbitrator since 2005, he has been appointed (until the end of 2022) to deal with more than 380 sport-related arbitrations (including as president of the panels and as sole arbitrator). Within his role as a CAS arbitrator, he has been a member and president of panels in high-profile cases, and dealt with a variety of different topics in the field of sports and sports law, such as governance and regulatory matters, commercial and employment disputes, media rights disputes, and disciplinary matters including doping cases, match-fixing cases and others.

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Dan Visoiu

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.

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