Organisation: International Olympic Committee

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has announced the arbitrators who will hear disputes and doping cases arising during the Tokyo Olympics. 

15 July 2021

Sports law specialist Brianna Quinn, whose clients have included FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, has been promoted to counsel at Geneva boutique Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler.

09 June 2021

A panel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned lifetime bans imposed on three Russian biathletes over their alleged participation in a state-sponsored doping programme.

02 October 2020

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to rule on Russia’s four-year ban from all major sporting events for manipulating laboratory data – with both parties instructing external counsel.

10 January 2020

Debevoise & Plimpton’s co-chair of international disputes David W Rivkin has been elected deputy president of the new anti-doping division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport – while Carole Malinvaud of Gide Loyrette Nouel has been re-elected president of the CAS ordinary arbitration division.

12 June 2019

Swiss authorities have charged Matthew Parish and two other Geneva-based lawyers with fabricating an arbitration as part of an effort to implicate senior Kuwaiti officials in a coup plot and corruption scandal.

03 December 2018

The ad hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected appeals by 47 Russian athletes and coaches against the International Olympic Committee’s decision not invite them to participate in the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang because of their alleged involvement in state-sponsored doping four years ago.

09 February 2018

Just eight days before the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang are set to begin, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld appeals by 28 Russian athletes over their lifetime bans from Olympic competition for doping offences – and reduced bans for 11 more.

01 February 2018

UPDATED. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has named the arbitrators who will hear disputes and doping cases at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month.

26 January 2018

UPDATED WITH COUNSEL. Two Court of Arbitration for Sport tribunals will next week simultaneously hear 39 of the 42 appeals lodged by Russian athletes in a conference centre in Geneva, as they look to overturn their lifetime bans following the state-sponsored doping scandal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

18 January 2018