Prof. Leonardo Andreotti Paulo de Oliveira (1984)

Attorney-at-law (Italy / Brazil) Por/Eng/Sp/It
São Paulo / Brazil

Attorney-at-law at Andreotti Advogados; Phd candidate (Labor Law), Sapienza Università degli Studi di Roma I (Italy), with a joint Phd at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil); Masters in Sports Law (Lleida, Spain); Arbitrator at Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (CBMA); Member of the National Dispute Resolution Chamber of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF); Former President of the Disciplinary Courts of of the following national associations: Brazilian Volleyball Confederation (CBV); Brazilian Taekwondo Confederation (CBTKD); Brazilian Badminton Confederation (CBBd); & Brazilian Basketball National League (NBB).

Mr Vitor Butruce (1982)

Attorney-at-law (Brazil) Eng/Sp/Por/It
Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

Ph.D. Commercial Law, University of São Paolo; Masters degree in Private Law, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); Partner at BMA Barbosa Müssnich Aragão; Professor of Commercial Law at UERJ and Brazilian Institute for Capital Markets; Former President of the National Dispute Resolution Chamber of the Brazilian Football Association (2016-2022); Former Vice President for Sports Law of the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA); Former Member of the 5th disciplinary commission of the sports justice superior court for Brazilian Football (STJD) (2012-2016).

Mr Daniel Cravo Souza (1970)

Lawyer (Brazil) Por/Eng/Sp
Porto Alegre / Brazil

Senior Partner at Cravo, Pastl and Balbuena Associated Attorneys; Professor of Sports Law at ISDE Barcelona and Madrid and Austral University, Buenos Aires; Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Football Lawyers (AIAF); Legal advisor to the Brazilian Confederation of Tennis.

Mr Roberto De Palma Barracco (1989)

Lawyer (Brazil / Italy) Por/Eng/Sp/It
São Paulo / Brazil

Attorney; Ph.D. candidate (Dispute Resolution) University of São Paulo School of Law (2020-2022); Member, FIVB Appeals Panel (2021- ); Member & Head of Research, Brazilian National Dispute Resolution Chamber (CBF NDRC) (2018 -); Former Member, CBDN Disciplinary Tribunal Appeals Chamber (2021-2022); Former Member, Triathlon Brazil Disciplinary Tribunal Appeals Chamber (2020-2022); Former Member, FGSP Disciplinary Tribunal Appeals Chamber (2019-2022); Former Member, CPB Disciplinary Tribunal Appeals Chamber (2018-2022).

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Mr Francisco Müssnich (1955)

Attorney-at-law (Brazil) Fr/Eng/Por
Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

JD from the Pontificia Universidade Católica - PUC/Rio, 1976. Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, 1979 and Fundaçao Getulio Vargas - FGV/Rio, 2015. Former member of the Superior Court of Sports Justice for Soccer (STJD - Superior Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva do Futebol) from 2004 through 2012. Senior and Founding Partner of Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão since April 1995. Member of the Sports Law Studies Commission from the Ministry of Sport. National Reporter for the 2009 Brazilian Code of Sports Justice. Legal counsel to the Local Organizing Committee for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil since its bidding process in 2007. Professor of Corporate Law at PUC/RJ since 1981 and FGV/Rio since 2015. Visiting Professor for international Mergers and Acquisitions of the Vanderbilt Law School since 2010. Arbitrator for the ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Rio 2016.

Mr Wei (David) Wu (1968)

Attorney-at-law (China / Brazil) Eng/Chi
Shanghai / China

Partner at Llinks Law Offices firm/Head of the Sports Law Department (2017- ); Vice President of the China Association For Sports Law (CASL) (2020- ); Arbitrator of Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (SHIAC); Arbitrator of Langfang Arbitration Commission; Member of N°6 Drafting Group of "Law of the People's Republic of China on Physical Culture and Sports"; Member of Rex Sport Association; Consulting Member of CAS Shanghai Alternative Hearing Centre; Head of Shanghai Bar Association Education & Sport Committee; Arbitrator at the CAS ad hoc Division for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

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