ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Legal track #2 | Session 6 - Game Changer: How law is reshaping sports and entertainment
DATE & TIME
LOCATION
🗓️ Thursday, August 28
🕐 11:30-12:30 EDT
📍 Waldorf Astoria
DESCRIPTION
For decades, sports governing bodies have ruled the world of sport with little restraint, making rules as they saw fit. In recent years, however, antitrust law has crashed the party and reigned in sports governance bodies’ power to promote fairness, transparency and accountability also off the pitch. This development can be seen in the EU with the landmark rulings in Superleague, Diarra and others. But also in the US, sports governance has come under increasing antitrust scrutiny, as exemplified by the NCAA judgments. Against this backdrop, the panel will explore not only where we stand from a regulatory perspective, but also what these developments mean for the protagonists of it all – the athletes. How can young athletes make the most of their careers on and off the pitch and what legal challenges do they face?
SPEAKERS
Anu Vuori
Magnusson Law, Finland
Anu is an employment partner at Magnusson Law and Head of Employment, Finland in Helsinki. She specializes in employment law, dispute resolution, and ESG matters. Anu also specializes in legal matters related to marketing, media and sports law.
Anu specializes in employment and dispute resolution within sports law. She assists athletes with doping-related matters in both Finland and CAS, and advises sports clubs on employment law, contract drafting, and commercial agreements for various stakeholders in the sports sector.
Michael Rueda
Withers, USA
Michael is a corporate partner and head of US sports and entertainment at Withers in New York.
Michael’s diverse corporate practice focuses on representing companies, venture and other funds, and investors of varying sizes and across industries.
Michael’s sports and entertainment practice focuses on advising a variety of companies and investors in the sports and entertainment industries, including live event companies, sports and entertainment agencies and management companies, investors in sports franchises and sports and entertainment properties and assets, production companies, and athletic apparel and equipment brands. Michael advises athletes, entertainers, influencers, and artists on matters such as brand management arrangements, including licensing, endorsement, sponsorship, and brand ambassador agreements; professional employment or service arrangements, including general employment, coaching, and playing contracts; and personal business and investment activities, including structuring existing and new business entities and holdings, and acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and assets.
Maria Claudia Martínez Beltrán
Martínez Quintero Mendoza González Laguado & De La Rosa, Colombia
Maria Claudia is a partner at Martínez Quintero Mendoza González Laguado & De La Rosa – Martínez-. She leads the Competition Law & Consumer Protection, Data Protection, Compliance, and Intellectual Property practices in Colombia. She is a lawyer and economist and advices her clients in competition law from a legal and economic perspective.
Her deep knowledge in these areas allows her to offer expert and strategic advice to effectively address legal and regulatory challenges, providing continuous, reactive, and preventive support on best legal compliance practices for companies under different prevention and mitigation legal regimes.
She began her professional career at our firm and later joined the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce where she was part of the investigation team of the Competition Protection Branch. She also advised the Superintendent before returning to our firm, where she has grown and forged her professional career.
María Claudia has extensive experience advising large companies and individuals on investigations carried out by the Competition Authority and the Corporations Authority.
Currently, she is a lecturer at renowned institutions such as Universidad del Rosario, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
SESSION COORDINATORS and moderators
Anya Lernatovych
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, USA
Anya is a member of Porter Wright’s Corporate Department in Pittsburgh where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private equity transactions, and complex corporate and business law-related matters.
She provides strategic counsel to clients through all stages of a transaction. Anya’s practice concentrates on domestic and cross-border transactions where she drafts, reviews and negotiates a broad range of commercial agreements for public and private companies. She also advises clients on day-to-day general corporate and contract matters, including risk management and compliance.
Anya also assisted the Pittsburgh Penguins in various day-to-day legal corporate matters, including assistance with the closing of the sale of the controlling interest in Lemieux Group to Fenway Sports Group, a global sports, marketing, media, entertainment, and real estate company. In addition, she represented Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. on various sport retail stores divestiture and acquisitions.
Max Schulz
Glade Michel Wirtz, Germany
Max Schulz is partner at GLADE MICHEL WIRTZ’s COMPETITION practice in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Max advises German and international clients on all issues relating to German and European competition law. His practice focuses on cartel proceedings before the antitrust authorities, advising on antitrust compliance including, for instance, cooperations between competitors, antitrust litigation with a view to the abuse of market power and damages as well as national and international merger control proceedings including matters of foreign direct investment control.
With a view to the intersection of sports and antitrust, Max advises clients such as sports agents and football clubs before the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and national courts.
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