Michele Bernasconi

Ranked in 2 Practice Areas

Band 1

Sport

Switzerland

6 Years Ranked

Band 3

TMT

Switzerland

18 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Michele Bernasconi

Europe

Practice Areas

Michele Bernasconi advises on a broad range of sports, media, energy, telecom and IT matters, acting for both domestic and international clients. He has particular expertise in international litigation and arbitration as well as in commercial and transactional work relating to such industries. His recent experience includes acting as arbitrator in international commercial and sport matters, providing advice on outsourcing and joint venture projects, broadcasting and sponsorship agreements, ambush marketing, regulatory and antitrust work in both the telecom and sport sector, software licensing, electricity transmission and distribution, doping matters as well as international transfers of football players.

Career

University of Zurich (lic.iur., 1989), Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1996), admitted to the Zurich Bar (1992)

Professional Memberships

Lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Chair of the Committee Sports Law of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, Former Chair of the Committee Telecommunications of the International Bar Association, Chairman of the Sports Law Committee of the Swiss Bar Association (SAV/FSA), President of the Association Suisse de Droit du Sport (ASDS), Co-Director of the UEFA Football Law Programme