Press Release

Rome, June 5, 2019 – International law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners announces the creation of a focus team dedicated to sports law. The new focus team aims to offer Italian and international clients - such as institutions, companies, sports attorneys, athletes - comprehensive and integrated services across the sports industry.

The team is multidisciplinary and is composed of professionals who are experts in a wide range of activities: corporate finance, sports regulation and internal organization, media, IP and television rights, finance and restructuring, real estate, revenue law, litigation, labour law, public law and wealth management.

The team includes name partners Francesco Gianni and Roberto Cappelli, and comprises Andrea Aiello, Antonio Auricchio, Stefano Grilli, Andrea Gritti, Marco Martinelli, Decio Mattei, Giancarlo Ranucci, Luca Rinaldi, Saverio Schiavone, all professionals with consolidated experience in their respective fields, able to guarantee a transversal approach to the assessment of issues and delivery of solutions on all matters connected, directly or indirectly, to the world of sport.

Antonio Auricchio, co-Managing Partner of the Firm and member of the team states: “We are proud of this new focus team that represents the natural development of our experience and passion in the field of sports law and corresponds to a specific need expressed by our clients. The sport industry today requires a high level of specialized and transversal skills that GOP can guarantee through its “full-service" nature and the high level quality that distinguishes all the Firm’s practice areas. Our leading role in recent major deals in this sector confirms this.”