William McAuliffe‘s experience at LKK includes participation as counsel in over 40 sports related disputes.
Representative CAS disputes have included:
- Successfully appealing on behalf of a member association a decision of the UEFA disciplinary bodies related to the outcome of a qualification match for EURO 2016.
- Successfully appealing against a FIFA DRC decision which required a football club to pay in excess of EUR 20 million following a dispute related to the movement of a player.
- Successfully defending a football club in relation to a multi-million Euro claim related to the movement of a football player.
- Successfully representing a company in ordinary arbitration proceedings related to multi-million Euro contractual claims related to the movements of a football player.
- Successfully defending an international sporting federation following an appeal against a sanction imposed on a football player for match-fixing offences.
- Successfully defending national football associations in relation to proceedings brought by member clubs.
- Acting in several election-related proceedings against various international sports federations.
- Successfully appealing against disciplinary suspensions imposed on a sports administrator by an international sports federation.
- Successfully defending an international sporting federation following an appeal against a doping sanction imposed on a football player.
- Acting for FIFA in various ethics proceedings.
- Successfully defending FIFA in proceedings brought by a football club seeking compensation for player injury.
- Successfully appealing multiple decisions of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber on behalf of football clubs.
Other disputes have included:
- Successfully appealing decisions imposed on basketball teams before the Euroleague disciplinary bodies.
- Successfully defending football clubs in proceedings before the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber.
- Successfully appealing on behalf of a national member association against a football player’s suspension imposed by UEFA.
- Acting for a basketball club in the context of financial claims brought by high profile foreign players and arbitrated by the BAT.
- Representing football clubs before the UEFA Club Financial Control Body in relation to Financial Fair Play matters.