OUR TEAM REPRESENTS AND ADVISES ALL PLAYERS FROM THE SPORTS INDUSTRY:

• Sports institutions: international and national sports federations and their decentralized bodies (leagues, districts, committees),
• Sports groups: : sports associations and societies,
• Advertisers and sponsors,
• Organizers of sports events,
• Investors,
• Sports agents,
• Athletes of all sports, individual and collective.

Our lawyers have the status of sports representatives. In this capacity, they regularly assist and represent professional athletes in the negotiation and drafting of their employment contracts and/or transfer operations.

OUR TEAM REPRESENTS AND ADVISES INDIVIDUALS IN FINDING ADAPTED SOLUTIONS TO THEIR NEEDS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

• Extra-patrimonial family law : separation of married, cohabiting or civil union couples, organisation of children’s living arrangements (visiting and accommodation rights, usual residence, alternating custody), exercise of parental authority (filiation, adoption, guardianship, name change, educational assistance).
• Property law : liquidation of matrimonial regimes and sharing of undivided interests, successions…
• Criminal family law : domestic violence, family abandonment, non representation of children.

THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT IS THE KEY DOCUMENT GOVERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AN EMPLOYER AND HIS EMPLOYEE. OUR LAWYERS INTERVENE ESSENTIALLY TO DEAL WITH THE FOLLOWING ISSUES:

• Drafting and negotiating the employment contract,
• Termination of the employment contract: redundancies (for personal or economic reasons), contractual terminations,
• Amicable settlement of disputes: negotiation with the opposing party, drafting of transactional agreements.

OUR LAWYERS ALSO ADVISE THEIR CLIENTS ON THE COLLECTIVE ASPECTS OF LABOR RELATIONS:

• Setting up and monitoring the CSE,
• Drafting and adoption of collective agreements (savings, profit-sharing, etc.),
• Collective redundancies.

OUR TEAM ASSISTS AND REPRESENTS ITS CLIENTS, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE AND ON APPEAL, BEFORE NUMEROUS STATE COURTS:

• Judicial Tribunal
• Commercial court
• Industrial tribunal
• Correctional Court
• Social Security Tribunal
• Administrative Tribunal
• Court of Appeal (civil and administrative)

BECAUSE OF THEIR EXPERTISE, OUR LAWYERS ALSO INTERVENE BEFORE THE SPECIALIZED SPORTS COURTS:

• Disciplinary bodies of sports leagues and federations,
• CNOSF
• Arbitration Courts

OUR LAWYERS ADVISE AND REPRESENT CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL COMPANIES:

• Choice of the appropriate legal structure,
• Drafting of articles of incorporation,
• Carrying out capital operations: mergers, demergers, sales of securities, capital increases, etc.
• General follow-up and support.

OUR LAWYERS BRING THEIR EXPERTISE TO THE SUPPORT OF SPORTS GROUPS, WHETHER THEY ARE CONSTITUTED AS ASSOCIATIONS OR SPORTS COMPANIES:

• Constitution of sports societies and associations,
• Management of the relationship between the supporting association and the sports company,
• Management of relations with federal authorities and management bodies,
• Creation of endowment funds.

OUR LAWYERS ASSIST THEIR CLIENTS IN THE ENTIRE CONTRACTUAL PROCESS, FROM NEGOTIATION TO DRAFTING, EXECUTION, AND TERMINATION, IN MANY AREAS:

• Partnership contract (sponsorship),
• Commercial contract,
• Image contract,
• Employment contract.

The status of sports agent provides our lawyers with particular expertise in managing the contractual links between clubs and athletes, whatever the sport.

TO PROVIDE OUR CLIENTS WITH A COMPLETE SERVICE, OUR LAWYERS HAVE THE NECESSARY SKILLS TO ACT IN CRIMINAL MATTERS, AS COUNSEL OR BEFORE THE COURTS.