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Jul 20, 2023
An unprecedented Saudi spending spree and the arrival of private equity has radically shifted the profile of club ownership in sport – one that’s particularly acute in football. Global Insight assesses the implications.
How is it that the ultra-favourite basketball team of the tournament lost over the least favourite one? What happened to this promising young tennis player that suddenly surrendered one entire set, then the match, to a second- rate player almost no one bet on? The reason might well lie in the ultimate manipulation of the sport business: match fixing and its string of related criminal offences. But how can the sport institutions evidence this? Do the arbitral tribunals have the capability to find out the truth? Will the prosecutors and police help by sharing their own findings? Can modern technology be of any assistance? How can match fixing be prevented? Are the sanctions adapted to the seriousness of a worldwide threat over the sport, its business, its image and its spirit? With trained experts from all over the world, the panel will discuss the path to a more ethical competition.
When arbitration meets crime
The Leisure Industries Section started as the Travel Law Section and addressed the needs of travel law practitioners serving the travel industries. It grew to merge with the Tourism and Sports and Gaming sections expanding in its scope to provide a specialist network of professionals in the leisure industries.
The Section recognises that lawyers who work in the leisure industries often practice in one of the more traditional legal fields (aviation, property, finance, maritime, intellectual property, employment, litigation, conflict of laws, consumer law, insurance and trade law). The Section provides a focused forum on issues which emerge due to the greater amount of leisure time available and the increased internationalisation of sports and gaming.
IBA Global Insight April/May 2016 - The ‘dumping’ of cheap steel from China into global markets continues to cause economic damage. With the Chinese government struggling to address steel overcapacity amid domestic tensions, other nations must take action.
There is hardly a private client advisor who has not heard of ChatGPT and similar large language models. While these are just fancy statistical next-word predictors, the texts generated by them are of an astounding human-like quality. In this session you will learn who the main players are in this field, what tools you as an advisor should be looking into, what their limitations are, and how these models will likely develop in the next few years. Brace yourself for the future, by attending the session – which will be both exciting and frightening!
29th Annual International Private Client Tax Conference - Navigating the private client world in turbulent times
Sep 12, 2023
This podcast discusses the scrutiny English football is facing after an influx of billionaire owners, UK gov consults governance reforms.
Every year, millions of hours of legal and professional services are donated to serve indigent clients. Measuring the impact of these hours may result in better data around client impact trends, provide better value to pro bono stakeholders by assisting law firms in better understanding and tailoring the resourcing of their programmes – and it may add value to the broader access to justice ecosystem.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Sep 20, 2021
For a long time, there were several inspection authorities in Ukraine for financial crimes investigations; namely, the Security Service of Ukraine, the tax police, and the national police. Lately, this finally has been changed by the adoption of the Law of Ukraine ‘On the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine’ (hereinafter ‘the Law’) in March 2021.
32nd Annual Conference on the Globalisation of Investment Funds
Jul 06, 2021
The Indonesian government is committed to a campaign to increase investment into Indonesia, by, among others, improving the ease of doing business by carefully planned initiatives aimed at reform in the investment climate. To prove its commitment, one significant breakthrough is through the issuance of an umbrella regulation, the so-called Omnibus Law, that cuts down on bureaucratic red tape and streamlines the investment process.
At last, a flurry in appointments of female leaders at many of the world’s largest law firms has occurred. This reached cruising speed as from 2020 and has not stopped since. It should not stop!
This showcase will consist in a conversation between some of those top female leaders, the IBA female leadership and a leadership expert from a INSEAD business school.
The dialogue will address the qualities that such leaders bring to the management table and what firms can do to keep the positive vibe from female leadership once they have moved on and have been succeeded by other, male colleagues?
Female Leadership Excellence in Law Firms: coincidence or here to stay?
Based on research involving 64.000 people in 13 countries, John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio identified that there is a shift in the types of leadership traits that are associated with success, morality and happiness.
The old masculine traits of aggression control, conflict and command are rapidly losing ground to behaviour, that is considered more feminine, like: selflessness, empathy, collaboration, flexibility and patience. Both male and female respondents in all researched countries expressed that this is the type of leadership which they consider most suitable for the rapidly changing and unpredictable world we live in. The researchers named this type of leadership: “The Athena Doctrine” (see TEDX Talk).
While these traits can be found both in men and women, it is clear that the Athena Doctrine particularly offers a great opportunity for women to soar in top positions. This session will discuss the following questions:
- How does the Athena doctrine translate to leadership in law firms?
- How do the leaders we have at the session relate to the Athena Doctrine?
- What particular features do they trust that they are bringing to the table?
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Sep 29, 2020
The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has called for the government to act immediately to bring ‘loot boxes’ within the remit of gambling legislation and regulation, in a report published in July. Loot boxes – virtual packages in video games that provide randomised in-game upgrades such as new characters when opened – have caused concerns, including that they tempt vulnerable people into gambling.
Is your organisation ready for the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution that's already transforming the legal landscape? Drawing from our comprehensive global survey of 350+ legal organisations, this session delivers actionable insights through real-world success stories and strategic approaches from across the legal ecosystem.
You'll discover:
- Practical AI applications delivering immediate return on investment for legal professionals across practice settings;
- Critical steps for law firms, courts, corporate legal departments, and academic institutions to thrive in the AI-driven environment;
- Essential strategies to transform your practice, judicial operations, or academic curriculum while protecting stakeholder interests;
- And future-proof solutions for workforce development and talent retention across the legal profession
Don't risk falling behind. Join pioneers from the bench and bar who are already leveraging AI to dramatically increase efficiency, enhance service delivery, and drive innovation in legal practice and education.
This session is essential for:
- Law firm leaders and practitioners;
- Judges and court administrators;
- Corporate and in-house counsel;
- Academic leaders and legal educators;
- Early-career lawyers;
- And legal professionals
Leave with a clear action plan to position your organisation for success in the AI era, regardless of your role in the legal ecosystem. Together, we'll explore how AI is reshaping legal practice, judicial decision-making, legal education, and corporate legal operations.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Aug 12, 2021
Video games often include real-life 3D objects, particularly if the game is to be realistic. The trouble with real-life objects is that they may be protected by various intellectual property rights. Unless the right holder has consented to the real-life object being used in the game, the game’s developer or publisher risk infringing IP. The article discusses reported cases from the US and EU regarding in-game use of 3D objects.
Come prepared to share your advice about the pros and cons of your jurisdiction, in small groups, over breakfast. Does your jurisdiction have the best weather, the best wine and the best tax regime? Have you top tips for pre-immigration planning? Are there bear traps to avoid?
29th Annual International Private Client Tax Conference - Navigating the private client world in turbulent times
Jul 16, 2024
The Games give rise to a number of legal issues, with some being organisational, such as those involving planning permission and security, and others sports-related.
The state of international law under the new Trump era
Dec 01, 2023
This IBA Showcase session brought together a panel of top female leaders to discuss what qualities are needed, what female leadership brings to a firm and how diverse voices benefit everyone.
The panel will address how the use of this insurance has evolved in the region, as well as what the peculiarities are for policies issued in the region, in contrast to other markets.
The panel will also discuss the trends by brokers and insurance companies for pricing representations and warranties (R&W) Insurance depending on different circumstances.
Mergers and acquisitions in Latin America
Nov 09, 2023
This showcase will consist in a conversation between some of those top female leaders, the IBA female leadership and a leadership expert from a INSEAD business school.
This panel will discuss low carbon and energy transition projects in the oil and gas industry acorss the globe.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
A webinar presented by the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee, 28 July 2021 1300 – 1400 BST
Within the electronic entertainment and online gaming world there are numerous opportunities and threats involving various legal and commercial areas including intellectual property, gaming and gambling laws and regulation. The panel will discuss all of these areas and consider how the Metaverse will change electronic entertainment and gaming from both player and audience perspectives.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Jun 25, 2024
As in many other parts of the world, the age-old activity of gambling also finds various references in Indian history and mythology. While ancient texts such as the Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Ramayana and Mahabharata caution against its harms, others such as the Katyayana Smriti, Manu Smriti and Narad Smriti support its regulated existence, citing its potential as a source of revenue for the Kingdom
• Major sports events, Olympic Games or World Cup events: beyond medals and trophies, is the local economic impact worth the investment?
• Game changers: the grand entrance of private equity and new investors into the world of sports.
The Laws of Sports: fast and furious or stable and reliable?
Jul 09, 2023
The Olympic Games is an economical, logistical and legal feat which tests a nation’s ability to deliver quality infrastructure in a timely manner on the world stage. A host city is uniquely placed under immense pressure to have all the necessary facilities, venues and other associated construction work completed on time for the sporting events to commence. Delay is not an option and every government decision is openly scrutinised in the public eye. However, as all in the construction industry know, undertaking major projects is rife with risk in terms of delay, defects, cost blowouts and a raft of other unexpected consequences. For a host city, it is imperative that the suite of contracts it enters into to build the venues, facilities, and infrastructure contain appropriate dispute avoidance and resolution mechanisms to manage the risks, and inevitable disputes, as and when they arise. Based on a history of success, this article proposes that dispute boards, in whichever form, are most appropriate for the avoidance of disputes. They are also useful for resolving disputes that cannot be avoided without the need have recourse to formal dispute resolution processes such as public litigation or arbitration.
In the world of online gaming, crypto casino tokens have emerged as a revolutionary means of transaction.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jul 20, 2020
The Law Society Gazette has published a co-authored opinion piece on contested historical legacies in public spaces by International Bar Association (IBA) Executive Director Mark Ellis and Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation(IHJR) Director, Timothy W Ryback.
May 19, 2016
A new report by Professor John Ruggie calls on football’s governing body FIFA to embed human rights across its operations, and may have implications for Qatar and other host nations of future tournaments
Game On: How the Right of Publicity, Legalised Gambling and Fair Pay to Play Laws Are Changing US Professional and Amateur Sports
Don't miss our panel of top M&A practitioners as they highlight some of the game-changing transactions of the past year, providing war stories and a unique perspective on the biggest recent developments and what they mean for the future of M&A.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Is the situation in women’s boxing during the last Olympic Games a case of discrimination and harassment of female athletes, or are the allegations justified measures aimed at levelling the playing field in sports competition?
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jun 04, 2024
In Vietnam, over the last decade, new-generation and innovative ‘telecommunication’ services such as over-the-top messaging (OTT) service, internet data centre (IDC) service and cloud-computing service (Cloud) have emerged and developed rapidly as a result of the 4.0 industrial revolution.
This panel will discuss and analyze the role the legal profession plays in this tech supported game and the extent to which the meaning and scope of legal privilege has evolved.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Dec 12, 2023
The law on e-transactions in Vietnam was recently amended in 2023. In this article we have analysed seven outstanding regulations in the amendment, namely: the scope of applications; data and data message; e-certificates; the use of e-signature and trust services; legal framework for applying e-contracts; synchronising the rights and obligations of the owner of the information system and the use of e-transaction accounts; and regulations on data collection, management and sharing among state agencies.
As of 2025 the EU’s Omnibus package promises to simplify sustainability rules in Europe, but is it a game-changer or a step back? With fewer reporting obligations and delayed deadlines, are we making ESG more effective — or just easier to ignore?
ESG: The Brussels effect at a crossroads
By Mattias Anjou, Johan Löfquist and Isabelle Vinterskog. Sweden – a flourishing fintech start-up scene in spite of regulatory hurdles
The multifaceted nature of compliance in sports, from upholding the integrity of the game to protecting the well-being of athletes, encompasses a wide range of regulatory, anti-corruption and ethical considerations, including gender equality, discrimination, doping scandals and match-fixing controversies.
20th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
May 19, 2021
The most well-known provision of the Hammurabi Code is this: ‘If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out (an eye for an eye).’ This is not the only criminal provision in the Hammurabi Code.
From the ad hoc tribunals at the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup that hear eligibility and doping disputes in real time, to the specialised sports tribunals located around the world, these sports arbitral institutions aim to resolve sports-related disputes as efficiently as possible.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The Spanish Constitutional Court has amended the wording of article 294 of the Judiciary Act, leading to a major change in the system of compensation for unjustified pre-trial detention. In the absence of a harmonised regulation on this matter, and in view of this change in the Spanish regulation, this article reflects on the compensation schemes in force in other EU Member States, taking into account the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
Mar 04, 2020
Justice Richard Goldstone, the former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Honorary President of the IBA’s Human Rights Institute, has been appointed to chair an independent review of the International Criminal Court (ICC or the ‘Court’) two decades after the Court was created.
- 1.Impact of European Data Laws on USA and Asia
- 2.Cybersecurity and AI (AI and cybersecurity risks and regulation/tech policies)
- 3.What's hot in the USA
- 4.Copyright ownership for AI generated content
- 5.Patentability of inventions created using AI tools
- 6.IP infringement involving digital or virtual goods (in online games etc)
- 7.Cross-border M&A: navigating regulatory and compliance hurdles
- 8.Structuring earnouts and navigating employee equity in startup Acquisitions
- 9.Strategic vs. financial investors: the impact on startups in VC / PE deals
IBA 6th Silicon Hills Conference – the Tech Epicentre of Texas: from Start-Up to Exit
Mar 03, 2020
The Gambling Commission – which regulates gambling in Great Britain – announced in January that gambling businesses will be banned from allowing British consumers to gamble using credit cards from mid-April. The move follows a public consultation and is representative of the increasingly hostile environment for gambling companies in the UK.
Revisit the rules of sourcing and allocation between States with performance rendered in different States (international tournaments) with a special focus on e-games and digital activities for tax treaty purposes.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Since Tokyo was elected in 2013 as the host city of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, now postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Japan has been investing enormously to prepare the infrastructure and environment to guarantee the success of the Games. In the legal field, a framework to protect the brand value of the Games and the interests of the official sponsors instantly became a focus of discussion.
With India’s spectacular moon landing, the nation confidently marches towards a five trillion-dollar economy, attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in high-growth sectors such as high tech engineering (ie, electric vehicles, semiconductors, defence), large scale infrastructure projects, as well as new age sectors such as Fintech, Edtech, Gaming, Agritech, Cleantech and financial services.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jul 22, 2024
Online bets have become one of the most interesting and lucrative markets of the entertainment industry. Nevertheless, the private sector operation is highly regulated in Colombia.
Jun 01, 2023
The dynamic nature of the digital environment with its lack of transparency and market complexity continues to challenge regulators, often making it difficult to detect issues and take enforcement action to deal with unfair trade practices, anti-competitive conduct and privacy and cybersecurity breaches.
Dec 20, 2023
While international competition regimes rarely operate in precisely the same way, many share a common feature: the decisions of the country’s competition law authority are subject to third-party review. Usually, Canadian and United States enforcers must prove their case in front of an independent judiciary. In Europe, enforcement decisions may be subject to judicial review or appeal. Whatever the precise structure, the third-party review process has important implications for enforcers and merging parties alike. Perhaps the most fundamental is whether third-party reviewers approach the law and evidence the same way as enforcers. Often, they do not. Two recent Canadian and American merger cases are striking examples of this phenomenon. In these cases, judges dismissed the enforcer’s case because they fundamentally disagreed with the enforcer’s approach to the law and the evidence provided. In Canada, the CAD$26bn Rogers–Shaw merger – one of the largest domestic corporate transactions in the nation’s history – closed in April 2023 after over two years of unsuccessful government regulatory challenges and litigation. The global Microsoft–Activision acquisition – labelled the largest acquisition in the technology industry’s history – faced significant regulatory opposition from regulators in the US and the United Kingdom before finally closing on 13 October 2023. An attempt by the US Federal Trade Commission to block the Microsoft–Activision transaction failed in July 2023. Although one case involves a vertical merger in the technology industry and the other involved a horizontal merger in the telecommunications industry, the enforcers approached both cases in a similar fashion, and both lost their cases for the same reason: their approach to the law and the evidence was fundamentally different than that adopted by the courts. Despite the differences between the cases, Canada’s Competition Tribunal in Rogers–Shaw and Judge Corley in Microsoft–Activision adopted a strikingly similar approach to the law and evidence: one grounded in the principles of fairness, efficiency and common sense. Their decisions hold valuable evidentiary and legal lessons for enforcers and practitioners alike. This article summarises both cases, outlines the key similarities in the eventual decisions and concludes with a list of critical takeaways for enforcers and practitioners to refer to in circumstances where they must convince third-party decision-makers of the correctness of their position.
Given that substantial amounts of money are part of the game – player transfers, image rights, TV quotas, licensed products, bets and so on – this has sparked the interest of tax administration to increase the collection of taxes internally and on cross-border transactions.
Annual IBA The New Era of Taxation Conference
This article aims to give readers a multi–jurisdictional overview of the law of various courts and agencies that have addressed professional sports broadcasting arrangements, including exclusive arrangements. It highlights some key areas of convergence, including for example the long-established efficiencies that can arise from both league-level broadcasting arrangements and exclusive production and distribution.
• Applying the rule of law versus applying the rule of the game: is the frontier clear or blurred?
• Who sits as arbitrators in sports disputes: are arbitrators good referees?
The Laws of Sports: fast and furious or stable and reliable?
Feb 04, 2021
Governance issues, the impact of Covid-19 and a widening divide between rich and poor clubs are all threatening the ‘beautiful game’. Global Insight investigates how football can be saved.
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