Senn, Ferrero Asociados Sports & Entertainment, S.L.P.

Managing Partners: Julio Senn González, Javier Ferrero Muñoz
Number of partners: 6
Number of lawyers: 18
Languages: Chinese, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Firm Overview:
SFA is based in Europe, with offices in 2 cities, Madrid (headquarters) and Bilbao in Spain. It provides with a multidisciplinary advisory service within the sports and entertainment industry to businesses in the audiovisual field, namely, television, radio, written press, audiovisual and film producers, record companies and publishers, collective rights management companies, cultural and artistic events promoters – entertainment companies in general – to sports clubs, teams and other sporting bodies in all sporting disciplines, sporting events promoters, sports federations and associations, – businesses in the world of sport – and to bull fighting bodies and associations, public and nonprofit making associations concerned with the world of sport or entertainment. SFA also specialise in providing advice and assistance to sportsmen and women in every kind of sport, to musical artists, audiovisual specialists, presenters, directors, script writers, writers, artists and bull fighters and to their agents and representatives in the sector. Recent work includes handling domestic and international player transfers, drafting employment contracts and assisting with tax planning for sports organisations.

Practice Areas:
■ Sports
■ Entertainment 
■ Intellectual Property
■ Tax

Main Areas of Practice:

Sports:
• Representation of many football clubs and national football associations in the negotiations and drafting of image rights agreements, international/national football transfer agreements and international/national football loan agreements.
Partners, Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón, Iñigo de Lacalle and Eduardo Montejo.
• Representation of many international/national funds in the negotiations and drafting of the financial agreements to be subscribed between football clubs and the investors.
Partners, Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón and Eduardo Montejo.
• Representation in many anti–doping cases international/national involving numerous professional sportsmen and women (such as cyclists, athletes, football players or tennis players) and team and club managers.
Partner Alfredo Garzón.
• Representation of football clubs and football players in the defence of many claims heard before the FIFA’s dispute resolution committees and chambers, UEFA’s disciplinary bodies as well as before the CAS (claims, disciplinary issues, doping and organisation of federative sports licences or federative restrictions on contracting).
Partners Javier Ferrero and Iñigo de Lacalle.
• Representation of football players in the negotiations and drafting of international/national image rights agreements, international/national football transfer agreements, international/national football loan agreements and international/national labour agreements.
Partners Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón, Iñigo de Lacalle and Eduardo Montejo.
• Representation of sportsmen and women in their compilation and processing of tax declarations both in the Spanish taxation system and abroad for both Spanish residents and non-residents.
Partners Eduardo Montejo.
• Management of companies and individual persons linked to the world of sport and entertainment, including basic advice and consulting services in accounting, cash, employment taxation and commercial matters as well as drafting of corporate articles and partnership agreements. This also involves drawing up internal and disciplinary regulations and opinions issued in respect of commercial restrictions within the framework of SAD, and obligations deriving from audiovisual legislation.
Partners Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón and Eduardo Montejo.
• Representation of licenced football/basketball agents in the negotiations and drafting of the international/national agreements of their players such as image rights agreements, football transfer agreements, football loan agreements and labor agreements.
Partners Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón, Iñigo de Lacalle and Eduardo Montejo.
• Representation of football players in the negotiation and drafting of international/national image rights agreements, international/national football transfer agreements, international/national football loan agreements and international/national labor agreements.
Partners Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón and Iñigo de Lacalle.
• Advising to companies, football players and agents on tax planning, optimising financial structuring, managing image rights structures, international taxation, tax litigation including administrative and judicial claims and appeals. Partners Alfredo Garzón and Eduardo Montejo.
• Legal services provided to football clubs as in-house lawyers.
Partners, Javier Ferrero, Iñigo de Lacalle and Eduardo Montejo.
• M&A legal services provided to companies for the acquisition of football clubs.
Partners Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón, Iñigo de Lacalle and Eduardo Montejo.

Entertainment:
• Representation as a talent law firm in the negotiations of the TV contracts of the most important and popular TV Show Men and Women with all the National TV Channels in Spain.
Partners, Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón.
• Representation of many companies in the dealing of the licence agreements, the employment agreements (including but not limited to the main actors, directors and choreographers), the investors agreements, the distribution agreements, the sponsors agreements and, in general, any agreements related to the exploitation of the venues, plays and any live show.
Partners Alfredo Garzón and Iñigo de Lacalle.
• Procedures in intellectual and industrial property matters as well as defence of the right to one’s own image, honour and privacy.
Partners Javier Ferrero and Alfredo Garzón.
• Representation of artists and celebrities in their compilation and processing of tax declarations both in the Spanish taxation system and abroad for both Spanish residents and non-residents.
Partners Javier Ferrero, Alfredo Garzón and Eduardo Montejo.
• Advising to companies and artists on tax planning, optimising financial structuring, managing image rights structures, international taxation, tax litigation including administrative and judicial claims and appeals.
Partners Eduardo Montejo.

OFFICES:

SPAIN

Bilbao
Gran Vía 38 – 4ª planta Pta 4
(48009) Bilbao
Tel: 00 34 944 355 941
Fax: 00 34 944 248 316
Email: [email protected]

Madrid
Plaza de La Lealtad, 3 – 5ª planta (28014)
Madrid
Tel: 00 34 917 010 010
Fax: 00 34 917 010 030
Email: [email protected]