Jens is a Professor, dr.jur. at Aarhus University and CAS Arbitrator.

Jonathan has over 20 years' experience in sport ranging from senior executive and board leadership roles in two large national sports governing bodies, The FA and the RFU, to the commercial world of IMG. I entered the sports world after training as a lawyer at Cambridge University and US firm Baker & McKenzie. My experience includes many of the key areas of running major sports organisations such as managing key stakeholder relationships at home and overseas, strategic planning and the important areas of corporate and regulatory governance in sport.

Appointed a TAS/CAS Arbitrator in 2023.

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.

Faculty Athletics Representative, University of Oregon

Juan Pablo Arriagada concentrates his practice on labor law and corporate law, covering both the areas of consulting and litigation. He was also the first specialist in Chile in sports law.

Juan Pablo has 25 years of experience advising various national and foreign companies from different sectors of the economy, regularly getting involved in complex disputes at various levels.

In addition to his law practice, Juan Pablo actively practices as an arbitrator. He is a member of the list of arbitrators of the Mediation and Arbitration Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (2012), member of the International Court of Sports Law (2003), member of the list of arbitrators of the Judiciary and member of the Disciplinary and Ethics Committee of the International Athletics Federation.

Ken Lalo is an Israeli businessman and lawyer, a horse rider and equestrian enthusiast. Ken earned his LLB at Tel-Aviv University, Master in Comparative Law at George Washington University, studied International Law at Georgetown University and earned an MBA at Northwestern University/ Tel-Aviv University.

Ken has been in managerial positions with the largest conglomerates in Israel involved in traditional industries as well as high-tech and bio-tech businesses and sat on the boards of a large number of companies including companies traded on NASDAQ and on the Israeli and London stock exchanges. Currently, Ken manages a large automotive group operating in Europe which was established by him some 20 years ago.

In sports, Ken has been Chair of the FEI Tribunal (1999 – 2011), Member of the FEI Judicial Committee (1996-1999), Member of the FEI Bureau (1999 – 2007; now an Honorary Bureau Member), Member of the FEI Clean Sport Committee (2009- 2010), Chair of the FEI Atypical Findings Panel (from 2021), Chairman or Member of Appeal Committees for equestrian disciplines at Olympic Games, World Games and other major Championships. He is in his sixth term as President of the Israeli National Federation, is an Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport since 2011, and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Council of the Fédération Internationale de Natation’s Aquatics Integrity Unit.

Barrister (Senior Counsel)

Klaus Reichert SC specialises in international arbitration with substantial experience in dealing with international disputes across a broad spectrum of complex subject matters, industries and governing laws (both common law and civil law) involving sovereigns and commercial parties from all over the World. He has particular experience as an arbitrator arising from cases administered by ICSID, ICC, LCIA, ICDR and the PCA. He has sat in arbitrations on three-member tribunals on multiple occasions in Paris, London, New York, Geneva, The Hague, Singapore and Washington DC. He has a significant focus on commercial cases located in the United States and is one of the few non-Americans admitted as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (USA). He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and was an arbitrator with the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal for many years.

He is Vice-Chair of the Executive of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (Dallas). He was called to the Inner Bar of Ireland (Senior Counsel) in 2010 having been involved as counsel in a large number of leading cases in the field of private international law before the Irish Courts. During the Academic Year 2023-24 he was  the Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law. In 2020 he was designated by the Government of Ireland to the ICSID panel of conciliators.

CAS Arbitrator

Lars Hilliger is one of Denmark’s leading attorneys in Danish and international sports law, providing advice to national sports federations, active elite athletes and coaches as well as agents and sponsors, to mention a few. Alongside this, he serves as one of just three Danish arbitrators at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland and Chairman of the Appeals` Panel of the Danish FA Club Licensing System.

Lars Hilliger has also specialised in the business law area, advising businesses on company matters, contracts, terms of employment, etc. Furthermore, he offers advice on ways to safeguard and protect intellectual property rights.

Finally, Lars Hilliger advises buyers as well as sellers in connection with business acquisitions and divestments and is an experienced provider of entrepreneurial advice with a focus on both the operational and the countless legal challenges that may be involved for anyone setting up in business.

Liu Jiahe is a Counsel at East & Concord Partners. She graduated from ISDE with a Master in International Sports Law and is also a member of the Athletes Committee of the Chinese Football Association. She was a former full-time legal counsel of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

Graduated from the Law Department of Peking University (LL.B. 1982), China Foreign Affairs University (LL.M. 1985) and Free University of Brussels (LL.M. 1986); Fulbright scholar at the Law School of Stanford University (1995-1996), visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute (Hamburg, 2008); 

Teaching and research on private international law, arbitration, civil and commercial law at China Foreign Affairs University since 1985; lecturing on Arbitration in China at Geneva MIDS program since 2009; lecturing on Arbitration at the IADS program at the Law School of Tsinghua University since 2013; 

Admitted to practice Chinese law in 1989 and had been a part-time counsel for over 10 years; 

ICSID Conciliator, Member of International Commercial Expert Committee of the China’s Supreme People’s Court, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Private International Law, Vice President of the Arbitration and ADR Committee of ICC China, Executive Member of the China Academy of Arbitration Law, Member of CIETAC and its Expert Advisory Committee, Vice Chairman of the Conciliation Centre of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade; 

Serving as arbitrator since 1989 having been involved in over 500 arbitrations under the rules of CIETAC, BAC/BIAC, SCIA, SHIAC, HKIAC, SIAC, ICC, SCC, ICDR, UNCITRAL and CAS as arbitrator, counsel or expert witness, covering, inter alia, trade, service, investment, joint venture, corporate matters, M&A, share transfer, construction, hotel management, licensing, agency, distribution, intellectual property, banking, letter of credit, securities, financial derivatives, leasing, maritime transportation, sport-related dispute;

Luigi Fumagalli is professor of International law at the Law Faculty of the “Università degli Studi” of Milan. The main practice areas of Luigi Fumagalli include International Trade law (with particular reference to the Italian investments in foreign countries) and European Union law, Litigation, Arbitration and Sport law.

Former member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce and of the Council of Milan Chamber of National and International Arbitration, of which he was also Chairman (2014-2017), Luigi Fumagalli is currently arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, appeal judge at the Euroleague Basketball, President of the 2nd Division of the National Antidoping Tribunal at CONI as well as member of the Arbitral Council of the Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS).

He is the author of copious publications in the filed of private international law, European Union law, Arbitration law and Sport law. He has been a member of the editorial board of the “Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale” since 1992 and a member of the Scientific Committee of the same legal periodical since 2016. He has also been co-editor of the legal periodical “Diritto del commercio internazionale – The Law of International Trade” since 2016.

In 2015 Luigi Fumagalli has been a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International law; recently, he has also been expert consultant in judicial cooperation at the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters and member of the Team of Experts on the modernization of the judiciary cooperation in civil and commercial matters of the European Union.

Attorney at Law, Kancelaria Prawna Maciej Bałaziński i Współpracownicy

Owner, Kancelaria Prawna Maciej Bałaziński I Współpracownicy

Counsel, Arent Fox

Malcolm Holmes QC is a Chartered Arbitrator at Eleven Wentworth Chambers in Sydney and an arbitrator member of chambers at 20 Essex Street, London and at Maxwell Chambers in Singapore.

After initially commencing an engineering degree at the University of NSW, he transferred to law, and obtained degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney University, NSW, Australia, and then a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University, UK. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1991. He is an experienced arbitrator, senior counsel and academic exclusively involved in international and domestic arbitration. He has acted as an arbitrator in a wide range of disputes. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Queensland in International Commercial Arbitration and a Professorial Visiting Fellow to the University of NSW in International Commercial Arbitration.

He has since 1995 acted as arbitrator in a broad variety of disputes in Japan, North America, England, Europe and Australia conducted under the rules of the Court of Arbitration for Sport based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Marianne is a Senior Legal Counsel with the FIA. 

Partner, Mills & Reeve LLP

Markus is a partner at Hanness Snellman. He focuses on compliance, M&A and company law related cases, as well as general commercial dispute resolution.

Markus advises clients in their internal and external compliance investigations and enforcement proceedings. He represents clients in M&A disputes relating to purchase price adjustments, damages claims, and share redemptions. In the field of general commercial disputes, Markus has litigated and arbitrated cases relating to e.g. international trade, insurance contracts, lease agreements, and employment contracts. He has extensive experience on injunction proceedings.

Markus regularly represents Finnish and foreign corporations in both domestic and international ad hoc arbitrations, as well as in arbitrations administered by various institutional rules (including FAI, ICC, SCAI, and SIAC). In addition, Markus frequently serves as an arbitrator in both ad hoc and administered arbitration proceedings. He is repeatedly ranked in the Best Lawyers® list for Finland (Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation and Sports Law).

Markus has unparalleled experience in the field of sports law. He has advised foreign and Finnish top level sports clubs in cases relating to sponsorship, player, coach, and stadium agreements. Furthermore, he has represented a leading stadium company and a major sports gear company in different sports-related disputes. Apart from being a versatile lecturer on sports law related topics, Markus has published several articles on the subject. In addition, he serves as a CAS arbitrator.