Bär & Karrer Ltd. ‘provides excellent advice’ in all sports matters from litigation, arbitration, and mediation to drafting and implementation of regulations and negotiating international contracts. Practice head Michele Bernasconi is considered a ‘leading global experts in sports law’ with extensive expertise in CAS as well as broadcasting and sponsorship agreements, international transfers of football players, and doping matters. White-collar crime specialists Saverio Lembo and Abdul Carrupt, and media experts Emanuel Cortada and Basil Kupferschmied regularly represents clients before CAS as well as the Swiss courts. Lukas Stocker left the firm in March 2023 to join as Senior Legal Counsel at Energie 360°.

Kellerhals Carrard is a ‘leading firm in sports law’ with ‘deep knowledge’ of doping-related and football disputes before CAS, regulatory and governance matters, as well as non-contentious work around event hosting, sponsorship, media, merchandising, and licensing. The team is headed by David Casserly SC, who is qualified as an Irish barrister and was appointed as a silk there in 2023, whose practice covers advising on significant commercial sports deals such as player transfers and club investments and representing international clients before CAS, and Jean-Pierre Morand, who is an anti-doping dispute specialist and has extensive expertise in the field of sports marketing and hosting contracts. Sports commercial contracts and sports arbitration are also the expertise of Luc Argand, Andrea Fioravanti , Massimiliano Maestretti, Stefano Perucchi , Henry Peter, and Jean-Philippe Rochat .

Lenz & Staehelin offers comprehensive advice to athletes and sports organisations on a wide spectrum of fields including disputes, corporate law, employment and immigration law, competition law, and IP. Xavier Favre-Bulle leads the Geneva team with his special expertise in acting as counsel before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Zurich team head Stephan Erni advises clients on domestic and international transactions and on corporate and commercial matters. Lucien Masmejan  supports sports teams and event organisations in structuring and organizing their businesses. Other key team members include Hikmat Maleh, Sevan Antreasyan, and Peter Ling.

Niederer Kraft Frey AG handles a range of contentious and non-contentious work across the sports industry. Practice head András Gurovits covers the full spectrum of sports-related matters where he regularly acts as an advisor and advocate for governing bodies and athletes before state courts and arbitral tribunals. Offering a commercial perspective, Daniel Eisele advises a range of organisers of major events. With the opening of the firm's new Geneva office, Boris Vittoz, who joined from Valfor in January 2023, has extensive experience in crisis management where he advised clients facing simultaneous legal and governance challenges. Thomas Hochstrasser regularly represents clients in high-profile cases.

Litigation and arbitration firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (Schweiz) GmbH represents clients in football, boxing, motorsport, tennis, cycling, equestrianism and golf among other sports. Team co-head Thomas Werlen  has a track record of representing prominent clients in major cases, such as FIFA, while Remo Decurtins, who also co-heads the team, focuses on complex, high-stakes litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations frequently involving multiple jurisdictions.

With sports law as a primary focus of boutique firm TIMES Attorneys, the team advises top clients on corporate governance and compliance, contractual issues and on disciplinary matters, including eligibility and doping issues as well as representing clients before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Team co-head and former international rower Stephan Netzle has ‘unique’ experience representing and advising international sports organisations, event organizers, athletes, marketing agencies and other stakeholders in commercial and disciplinary matters. Olivier Ducrey, who has a special focus on drafting and negotiating commercial and sport related agreements, also co-heads the team. Mirjam Koller-Trunz practice covers the support of clients before sports arbitration tribunals and the advice of sport federations, clubs, players, and sponsors on sponsorship, media rights, licence and labour agreements.

VISCHER provides clients with a full sports law service including broadcasting rights, betting, marketing and merchandising, sponsor agreements, infrastructure, and transfer agreements. Former Switzerland beach soccer international Moritz Jäggy and Robert Bernet. Jaggy has a particular focus on football, investments, sporting venues, sponsoring, and e-sports whilst Bernet has extensive corporate law experience. Rolf Auf Der Maur has particular experience marketing of TV and media rights matters for sporting events.

Bonnard Lawson represents athletes, clubs and sports federations in sports disputes before CAS, as well as in proceedings before the adjudicatory bodies of various international sports federations. The team also supports clients with the drafting and negotiation of sports contracts, governance and regulatory issues, and enforcement proceedings. Practice head Fabrice Robert-Tissot has extensive experience in sports disputes. Sumin Jo  has a special focus on cross-border litigation whilst Patrick Pithon has extensive expertise in the e-sports sector.

The sports practice at CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd. is regularly instructed on sports litigation matters within ice hockey and football. The practice draws from the expertise of specialists from other practice areas as well as relying on its global network to support in complex mandates. Practice heads Pierre Ducret and Philipp Dickenmann both  represent clients in arbitration proceedings before CAS. Alongside being a CAS arbitrator, Olivier Carrard assists many young athletes and clubs pro bono.

MLL Legal represents team owners, individual athletes, and sports organisations in both contentious and non-contentious matters including drafting of employment, service and agreements, athlete transfers, litigation, and disciplinary proceedings. In Geneva, the team is headed by Jean Marguerat whose practice involves representing clients before CAS. Zurich team head Peter Schramm has extensive expertise in matters concerning ambush marketing.

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd offers ‘high-quality legal services covering a broad spectrum of legal issues’ including non-contentious matters such as sponsoring and marketing agreements and broadcasting rights as well as disputes work. Philippe Bärtsch , who has extensive experience handling complex international commercial and sports arbitrations, co-heads the team with Christopher Boog , who represents clients in disputes before adjudicatory boards of federations, the Court of Arbitration for Sports and other arbitral institutions as well as the Swiss Supreme Court. The team benefits from Anna Kozmenko ‘s expertise in high profile and complex disputes.

Archipel ‘s ‘excellent team’ handles a wide range of sports-related disputes including disciplinary proceedings, arbitration, compliance with anti-doping rules, and matters concerning player transfers or nationality changes. Practice head Giulio Palermo, who regularly acts as arbitrator at the CAS, is also a member of the Sport Resolutions’ International Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators and an arbitrator of the European Handball Court of Arbitration. As UEFA Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector, he represents UEFA in proceedings before the latter’s internal disciplinary and appeal bodies. Panagiotis Kyriakou regularly works alongside Palermo in advising clients in sports-related commercial matters.

Charles Russell Speechlys AG offers a full sports law service, covering contentious work as well as handling transactional work concerning sponsorships, events organisation, and media rights. The team is co-headed by Pierre Bydzovsky, who has expertise in advising governing bodies, and new hire Benoît Pasquier, who handles a range of disciplinary work as well as acting as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The team is supported by Serge Vittoz, who joined in May 2023.

Homburger provides ‘valuable assistance’ to its high-profile clients on traditional sports-related matters as well as having a special focus advising on the exploitation of media rights.  Practice head Gregor Bühler has extensive knowledge of advertising law and IP related sports matters. Georg Rauber advises sports marketing companies and organisations on various contractual issues. Stefan Blunschi has expertise handling transactional, governance, and compliance matters.

Valfor Attorneys-at-law advises local, national, and international sports governing bodies, athletes and officials in specific governance matters, board and congress operations, disputes, election processes, disciplinary and ethics proceedings, anti-doping and competition management. The team is headed by Philippe Vladimir Boss, who has a special focus on integrity issues such as match-fixing and anti-doping, and Despina Mavromati, who has among other work sits as an arbitrator at CAS.

White & Case S.A. represents sporting federations, leagues, and individuals in a wide range of sport-related matters, both contentious and non-contentious. Team head Jasper Wauters has extensive expertise acting as a CAS arbitrator and advising clients on regulatory and sports policy issues, including disputes with competition law elements. Alexandre Mazuranic advises clients on contractual, regulatory, and commercial activities within the area of sports law.