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FIDAL has developed considerable expertise in the following fields :

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National and international taxation |
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Assistance in decisions and choices that have a tax impact, assistance with audits and litigation:
• Athletes
• Professional clubs
• Associations
• Public facilities
• Sponsoring and patronage
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Labour law applied to sporting activities |
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• Drafting of employment, transfer, profit-sharing and settlement agreements for professional athletes
• Publicity rights
• Social security contributions for amateur sport employees
• Assistance with URSSAF audits
• Prevention and settlement of disputes
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Law applicable to sport structures |
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• Assistance for sporting structures: federations, associations, SASPs (professional sport corporations), SAOS (sport corporations) and EUSRLs (single-shareholder, limited liability sport companies) in the organisation of their bylaws
• Drafting of regulations
• Management agreements for professional activities
• Mergers, understandings and inter-business agreements
• Creation of publicity companies
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Contract drafting |
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• Sponsorship, equipment and publicity contracts
• Exploitation right agreements, broadcasting contracts and event organisation licensing agreements
• Player transfer and agent's contracts
• Advertising and sport marketing contracts
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Intellectual property |
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Legal analysis, management and licensing of rights
• to operate sporting events
• to athletes’ images
• to broadcast events
• to market derivative products and services
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Competition law |
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• Exclusivity practices
• Centralised marketing of rights
• Procedures for going out to tender
• Preventive or litigious techniques to protect against unauthorised use
• Ambush marketing
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Relations with regional authorities |
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Assistance with contractual engineering and techniques
• Public service delegations, private-public partnerships
• Project management for the design, construction and operation of sport facilities
• Occupancy agreements
• Subsidy agreements and labour contracts
• Labour law and tax due diligence reviews of subsidised associations
• Sporting event organisation
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Conciliation and litigation |
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• Sports-related or disciplinary disputes involving federations and leagues, the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (French National Olympic and Sport Committee) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Judicial and administrative litigation related to sports
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