Europe

Sports Law Firm of the Year Italy

Firm Profile

With 20 partners and more than 180 professionals operating in offices in Milan, Rome, Munich (Germany) and Padua CBA has leveraged on its prominent position in the M&A, turnaround and restructuring sectors to become a leading provider of legal services to corporate entities in the Italian and German markets.

But being one of many full service law firms - though unique in its cross-border focus on Italy and Germany- has not been CBA's ultimate goal. The Firm has consistently and successfully pursued a strategy aimed at establishing itself as a leading provider of highly specialized legal services in niche and countercyclical markets like sports, entertainment, betting, media, sponsorship and licensing, IT, design and energy.

CBA & Sports Law Sports Law at CBA is practised by a multi- lingual and multi-disciplinary team of lawyers headed by Luca Ferrari, one of the Firm's founding partners and a pioneer of sports law in Italy.

Luca maintains an holistic approach to the sports business, combining regulatory, commercial and tax advice through a highly trained group of specialists covering transactional as well as litigation work, and domestic as well as cross-border work. A civil

Luca Ferrari

law attorney by education, his international background and experience has granted him familiarity with common law legal system and contracts.

He regularly speaks at international conferences, gives lectures at universities for masters and other post-graduate programs and has contributed to several sports-law, media and image rights publications. He is also a regular writer for International Sports Law Review, Global Sports Law, Taxation Reports and, having been a member of the editorial board since 2004, World Sports Law Report.

Notable Legal Work

Luca's most recent work has included the new collective bargaining agreements for Italian football players, coaches and sports directors, Sergio Tacchini's sponsorship of Novak Djokovic, the new Arena global

swimwear sponsorship program, Liverpool FC's acquisition of Fabio Borini from AS Roma and the contract between the Japanese Football Association and national team manager Alberto Zaccheroni.

Sports Law at CBA is practised by multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary team of lawyers headed by Luca Ferrari, one of the Firm's founding partners and a pioneer of sports law in Italy.

Contact: Luca Ferrari, Partner CBA, Galleria San Carlo n. 6, 20122 Milano

Telephone: +39 02 778 061 Telefax: +39 02 760 21816 Email: erika.seifert@cbalex.com

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