INDIVIDUAL - SPORTS LAWYER OF THE YEAR IN ITALY Sciumé – avvocati e commercialisti
Alberto Ziliani Partner Tel: +39 02 7636991 alberto.ziliani@sciume.net www.sciume.net
Alberto Ziliani is a partner of Sciumé – avvocati e commercialisti (SAC), and is an expert in sports law and company law. The experience he has gained allowed him to become a point of reference for any legal requirements related to sports law, both for clients’ contractual needs and for litigations. Over the years he has been involved in several international transfers of top football players and has been appointed lawyer in important disputes before the TAS/CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport). His skills and expertise enable him to assist champions of the world of cycling and motorcycling, and deal with international sportsmen for the management of their contracts and disciplinary disputes before arbitration proceedings. His expertise in company law mainly concerns M&A transactions and the drafting of commercial contracts. He is a member of the board of directors of the most important private security employers’ associations in Europe (COESS) and Italy (Federsicurezza).
SAC is a law and tax firm that offers customers a wide range of legal and accounting services, ranging from listing on regulated markets to restructuring of groups of non-profit organizations, from international tax planning to any kind and degree of litigation, from the protection of family assets to the valuation of companies, including public companies. SAC operates in the main sectors of law and economics, including corporate and M&A, banking and finance, administrative law, sports law, bankruptcy law, non-profit and tax, staffing more than 50 professionals in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Catania, Padua. SAC is also part of a network with foreign law firms, through which it offers comprehensive advice also on cross-border transactions. SAC offers qualified assistance in these fields: EXTRAJUDICIAL (SAC works on national and international contracts, acquisitions, joint ventures and any kind of business operations, on national and international sports contracts, and advises and supports start-up companies); and JUDICIAL (SAC follows civil, administrative, labor, competition,
insolvency and arbitration procedures before any courts. It offers assistance before any entity of sports justice and before criminal courts). SAC activity is recognized in academic and qualified professional training fields (Sapienza – Università di Roma, Banca Prossima, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Università di Catania, Università Cattolica di Milano, LUISS Management, Fondazione Alma Mater Studiorum, Ordine dei Commercialisti di Catania, Il Sole 24Ore Formazione). Over the years, SAC has spread its intervention areas and deepened issues related to the services for business and for the third sector through an own network of collaboration with: Interfield, a service company assisting operators and companies in all matters of personnel management, in the accounting and tax areas, in the management control; Fondazione Profit Non-Profit, an entity that carries out research/communication activities in order to foster a profitable integration of “profit” and “non-profit” bodies; Edinet, a service company having a specific know-how in the use of new technologies, especially – but not only – for nonprofit organizations.
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