Our sports area provides a global service with professionals with more than 20 years of experience managing top-level football clubs in Spain and participating in the most relevant and executive management bodies of professional football in Spain and the rest of the world.

We offer a differential added value to all operators in the sports industry and in particular in professional football, focused on business development, comprehensive legal advice and operational and strategic consultancy.

Our sports services 

Contracting and negotiation:

Advice on employment contracts of sportsmen and women, national and international transfers of players, agent contracts, sponsorship and advertising contracts, protection and management of image and audiovisual rights; advice to executors of sports infrastructure works.

Dispute resolution:

Mediation and litigation related to contractual disputes, doping and other sports disputes.

Legal accompaniment of clients in their commercial and business relations, focused on optimising efficiency, reducing operating costs and improving the profitability of operations.

Tax advice:

In operations specific to the sports industry.

Strategic and business plans for clubs and associations that want to provide these services to their members.

  • Structuring of human resources and selection processes.
  • Development of professional careers for athletes.
  • Systematisation of business improvements in different work verticals for clubs.
  • Implementation and development of internal regulatory frameworks for associations.
  • Advice on financing and refinancing operations for sports entities.
  • Strategic advice for the implementation of AI tools in sports entities.
  • Process consultancy.
  • CAAC audit of clubs and associations.
  • Reports on agreed procedures.
  • Feasibility studies.
  • Due diligence of investments and divestments.
José María Cruz
José María Cruz
Partner. Sports
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Sevilla
+34 644 48 42 55

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