Dantas Rodrigues & Associados provides permanent legal advice to clubs, agents, associations, federations and international bodies, namely:
Football Clubs
- Player status and their respective contracts;
- Tax planning of the amounts in the contract;
- Match fitness issues, drafting opinions and adopting any necessary measures;
- Domestic and international transfers;
- Sports cooperation agreement domestic and foreign clubs for the transfer of players, technical staff and the training of young players;
- Drafting instruments related to the termination and preservation of the sports contract and economic rights;
- Collecting amounts pertaining to Training Compensation and Solidarity Clause;
- Actions and measures when seeking the documents required for the application for a Player Passport;
- Preparing and launching proceedings with the Disciplinary Committees, Sports’ Justice Courts;
- Collecting credits and launching proceedings with UEFA, FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS-CAS).
Football Players
- Advising during the negotiation and transfer to national and international clubs with evaluation appraisal and drafting of employment contracts;
- Analysing and monitoring processes involving the temporary loan of players to other sports’ societies or clubs;
- Explaining to players their contractual obligations and rights pursuant to their sports’ practitioner employment contract or sports’ training contract and the respective sports’ bodies;
- Collecting amounts in arrears (salaries, bonuses);
- Legal advice and drafting of contracts with clubs, companies and sponsors pertaining to the Image Rights (Usage License) Marketing and Merchandising;
- Incorporation of companies for the player to license the usage and commercial operation of his image;
- Tax planning of the amounts in the contracts;
- Monitoring of the disciplinary proceedings started by clubs, Public Limited Sports’ Companies, Associations or Federations;
- Monitoring Doping procedures;
- Monitoring of termination of employment contract for just cause proceedings at the initiative of the player based on failure to pay wages;
- Appeals to the Sports Justice Courts;
- Collection of credits and launching of proceedings with UEFA, FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS-CAS);
- Claiming of compensation for accidents in the course of sports’ activity.
Athletes in other sports
- Legal advice when drafting contracts, transfers;
- Legal monitoring during the mediation of negotiations for domestic and foreign clubs;
- Monitoring in disciplinary procedures, doping;
- Collecting amounts in arrears (wages, bonuses);
- Preparing and launching proceedings with Sports’ Associations, the Olympic Committee, Sports Justice Courts;
- Claiming of compensation for accidents in the course of sports’ activity.
Player agents
- Legal advice on national and international transfers with the drafting of contracts and advising on proceedings to legalise the player with the National Association of the target club;
- Drafting representation agreements in accordance with FPF and FIFA requirements;
- Advising on and drafting instruments related with players’ economic rights;
- Extrajudicial collection of commissions, interest, fines and other unfulfilled contractual obligations;
- Consulting and advising on the release of amateur athletes;
- Legal monitoring on the mediation of negotiations for domestic and foreign clubs.