SPECIALIZED LEGAL ADVICE IN SPORTS
UNDERSTAND
The team of Lentze Stopper is working exclusively in sports since over 20 years. Our clients are engaged on all levels of the organization, design and value added of sports. Associations, leagues, clubs, athletes, agencies and other stakeholders in sports Sport trust in our law firm specialized on sports law. These experiences and know how enables us to comprehensively understand the specific task of the client.
DESIGN
Advice and design in sports requires not only legal quality but more over a comprehensive and in-depth comprehension and know-how of sports – its particularities, boundaries and chances. In doing so we can design and protect the law jointly together with our clients in the best interest of our clients and create long term structures which reflect and protect the autonomous needs in sports.
SOLVE
Our goal is to “solve not to manage” – our demand is solution-oriented acting, our advice is always focused on the client’s need for a solution of the matter.
Our services in a nutshell
Agency agreements
- Marketing agreements
- Cooperation agreements
- Licensing and sponsoring agreements
Employment law
- Athletes, coaches and manager
- Representation in sports jurisdiction, arbitration jurisdiction and ordinary jurisdiction
- Drafting and negotiating of contracts
- Labor court procedures
- DFB sports procedures
- DFB arbitration procedures
- International sports procedures (FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber / Players‘ Status Committee)
Compliance
- Surveillance & evaluation of organization measures
- Advice on German Corporate Governance Code
- Code of Conduct
- Partner Background Checks
- Remuneration issues
- Compliance Officer
Data protection law
- Overall data protection advise (e.g. GDPR)
- Draft of Privacy Policy
- In-house data protection
- Draft of procedure directories
- Sports law related data protection issues
- External Data Protection Officer (DPO)
- Data protection training
- Implications on anti-doping regulations
Tenders/Bids
- Strategic consulting (procedure/content)
- Preparation of tender documents
- Preparation and implementation
Financing
- Models for clubs
- Models for athletes
- Models for investors/sponsors/patrons
Corporate law
- Spin-offs
- Articles of association for companies, partnership agreements, shareholder/board resolutions
- Articles of association for clubs and federations
Major events
- Hosting agreements
- Government Guarantees
- Host city agreements
- Stadium agreements
Capital markets law
- Structuring of regulatory compliant (sport) financing
- Audit of exisiting financing models and development of alternative financing approch/concept
- Prospecting of securities, assets and fund structures
- Emission and placement (public / private) of financial instruments
- Representation with Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) relating to statutory requirements pursuant to §§32 KWG, 8 ZAG
Antitrust law
- German and European anti trust law
- Representation in ordinary jurisdictions
- EU-Commission / German Federal Cartel Office / State Cartel Offices
License agreements
- Trademark licenses
- Personal rights
Trademark law
- Development brand strategy
- National and international application procedures (e.g. DPMA, EUIPO, WIPO)
- Administration of trademark portfolio (e.g. worldwide office correspondance, trademark monitoring, settlement agreements)
- Administrative procedures (e.g. oppositions)
- Court procedures
- Representation out of court and enforcement of trademarks
Media law / Media rights agreements
- Strategic consulting
- Rigts tender
- Media rights agreements (e.g. media license agreements, exploitation agreements)
- Digital media (consulting, contract drafting)
Equine law
Consulting and representation in and out of court all legal aspects related to the horse, equestrian sport and horse husbandry addresses to horse owners, equestrians, riding stables and cubs, veterinarian, farriers and other equine specific professional groups as well as sponsors and investors.
Press law
- Cease and desist letters
- Counterstatements
Sponsoring agreements
- Sponsoring partnership agreements
- Supplier/equipment agreements
- Naming rights agreements
Transfers
- Transfer agreements
- Intermediaries/agency agreements
- Employment agreements
- Account management for solidarity contribution and training compensation
Sports jurisdiction / Arbitration proceedings
- National sport jurisdiction (e.g. DFB sport procedures)
- International sport jurisdiction (FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber / Players‘ Status Committee)
- Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS), anti doping proceedings and other sports arbitration proceedings
Ticketing
- Strategic consulting
- Draft of terms and conditions
- Enforcement
- Representation in court procedures
Statutory law
- Statutory matters
- Membership structures
- Foundation and revitalization of sport clubs
- Draft of articles of association and codes
- Preparation of general meetings Vorbereitung and board resolutions
- Club’s liability and volunteers
Association law
- National and international regulations and statutory requirements
- Representation in sports jurisdiction, arbitration jurisdiction and ordinary jurisdiction
- Statutory matters
- Anti-Doping regulations (WADA/NADA)
- Regulations on majority shareholders
- UEFA Financial Fairplay (FFP)
- Third-party-ownerships (TPO)
- National and international regulations on intermediaries
- Statutory penalties (recourse)
- Ethic-Code Procedures
Competition law
- Consulting on competitive law
- Ambush-Marketing (e.g. counter-ambush strategies, counter-ambush procedures)
- Ordinary court procedures/preliminary injunction procedures