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Sports and Entertainment

MAZZUCCO & MELLO ADVOGADOS is made up of specialized lawyers with extensive experience in the sports field.

The team is familiar with the most relevant transactions in the market, which guarantees its clients the provision of personalized and high-quality services. At MAZZUCCO & MELLO ADVOGADOS, the sports area also operates through partnerships with lawyers and offices in different locations, allowing its clients to have better and more effective monitoring of legal issues, especially in preventive and contentious matters of a national and international nature. In addition, the firm is fully prepared to meet the needs of athletes, agents, clubs, federations, sports governing bodies, investment funds and companies involved in any business arising from sports products. The firm has an innovative way of offering preventive consultancy to its clients, providing all corporate planning and with extensive work in the labor sphere, as well as a notable role in litigation and dispute resolution, also acting with a focus on contractual issues, intellectual property, digital sports platforms, sports betting, commercial, disciplinary and doping issues.

Experience

August 14, 2024

One of the most popular Short Video Apps in Brazil: Comprehensive Legal Support in Litigation, Licensing and Regulatory Defense

We represent one of the most famous Short Video Applications in the country in civil proceedings, in obtaining licenses...

Team

Leonardo Neri

Partner

Arbitration and Mediation, Compliance and Business Integrity, Competition, Consumer, Civil Litigation, Sports and Entertainment, Privacy and Data Protection

Updates

April 1, 2019

Legalization of online sports betting and legal challenges

News

October 23, 2020

HOW THE CLUB-COMPANY PL CAN HELP PROMOTE FOOTBALL IN BRAZIL

By Leonardo Neri The Federal Senate will analyze Bill (PL) nº 5.082/16, which provides for...

July 10, 2019

Regulation of sports betting in Brazil and the unlimited authorization of licenses for entrepreneurs

By Leonardo Neri Candido de Azevedo Initially, the Ministry of Economy showed interest in granting unlimited licenses...

Arbitration

Participation in international arbitration (London, Toronto, Colorado) before Innovative Dispute Resolution and USADA, having worked alongside arbitrator Richard McLaren, a world reference in relation to doping issues.

Sports Betting, Regulatory and Broadcasting Law

Participation in a project involving media rights, streaming and a sports betting platform in conjunction with the British television network Sky.

Corporate and Contracts

Legal advice for Superliga clubs and creation of an association and statute for an Independent Volleyball League, as well as drafting the sports regulations for the national competition.

Investment in the Youth Category and Commercial Transactions of Athletes

Establishing partnerships with CEOs and representatives of Championship clubs, such as Sheffield, and British Premier League clubs, such as Burnley, as examples, with a focus on international brand development, the transfer of Latin American players in the European common market and the promotion of youth teams through international investment.

Corporate and Contracts, Data Protection Law, Sports Betting and Regulatory

Complete legal advice, from the opening to the regulatory development of the business established by the start-up iSPORTiSTiCs, specialized in processing and formatting sports content, generating video outputs and statistics, useful for media, analytics and advertising initiatives.

Civil, Sports Betting, Regulatory and Intellectual Property

Complete legal advice from the opening to the regulatory development of the business established by the start-up “Quer Valer”, which operates in the digital marketing segment, having created an application consisting of a product that encourages challenges among sports fans, based on the results of the agreed games.

Disputes

Writ of Mandamus filed in favor of the Brazilian gaming association discussing the legalization of gaming in Brazil.

Consulting for Judicial Recovery in the entertainment sector

Legal consultancy for recovery to present a company selling electronic games and video games with an opinion on the feasibility of filing a request for judicial recovery.

August 14, 2024