Sports Arbitration, Conciliation and Settlement Negotiations
Andrea Carska-Sheppard is Lawyer, Arbitrator and Global Corporate Counsel.
Her expertise are commercial law and sports law.
She is a Sports Arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) in Switzerland and a member of Sports Dispute Resolution Center of Canada (“SDRCC”) and she served as an arbitrator for the CAS Ad Hoc Division at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
She served as a sole arbitrator and/or co-arbitrator in the following sports: athletics, basketball, gymnastics, hockey, tennis, and volleyball. The link to her arbitrator profile is here.
While in number of situations, advantages are going through the court or arbitration proceedings, the parties often benefit from settling their disputes before going to court, write Robert H. Mnookin, Scott R. Peppet, and Andrew S.
Tulumello in their book Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes (Harvard University Press, 2000) and we provide a safe platform for solving disputes privately and efficiently through conciliation which is a process aimed of ending a disagreement between the group or people involved or through negotiated settlement which results is an agreement between parties to resolve a dispute.
Her expertise are commercial law and sports law.
She is a Sports Arbitrator with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”) in Switzerland and a member of Sports Dispute Resolution Center of Canada (“SDRCC”) and she served as an arbitrator for the CAS Ad Hoc Division at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
She served as a sole arbitrator and/or co-arbitrator in the following sports: athletics, basketball, gymnastics, hockey, tennis, and volleyball. The link to her arbitrator profile is here.
While in number of situations, advantages are going through the court or arbitration proceedings, the parties often benefit from settling their disputes before going to court, write Robert H. Mnookin, Scott R. Peppet, and Andrew S.
Tulumello in their book Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes (Harvard University Press, 2000) and we provide a safe platform for solving disputes privately and efficiently through conciliation which is a process aimed of ending a disagreement between the group or people involved or through negotiated settlement which results is an agreement between parties to resolve a dispute.
some points to note
Every situation requires specific skills and a tailored solution.
The initial confidential complimentary assessment is conducted to diagnose the situation.
All through the process the matter is kept strictly confidential unless you wish to make a public disclosure.
The initial confidential complimentary assessment is conducted to diagnose the situation.
All through the process the matter is kept strictly confidential unless you wish to make a public disclosure.
In addition to serving as arbitrator for during the Rio Olympic Games (example of arbitration decision can be found here) She worked/arbitrated Disputes related to: International Contracts including Employment Contracts, Doping, Collective Agreement for Professional Players in variety of sports including Track & Field, Ice Hockey (covered NHL and was accredited at Montreal Canadians prior to law studies), Football, Basketball, Tennis, Motorsports.
Andrea is an Author and Co-Author of leading articles on international commercial and sports arbitration, doping, investor-states disputes, global contracts, legal compliance. Co-Author with Professor Paul Weiler, from Harvard Law School "Back on Track 2: Corrective Justice for Performance Enhancing Malpractice in Sports," 2 Pace I.P. Sports & Ent. L.F. 137 (2012). List of publications provided on request. More information on her sport arbitrator qualifications can be found here.