Mr Micael Totaro > Peter & Kim > Sydney, Australia > Lawyer Profile
Peter & Kim Offices
Level 7 167 Macquarie Street
Sydney
New South Wales 2000
Australia
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Mr Micael Totaro
Work Department
Sports & Commercial Arbitration
Position
Micael Totaro is a Swiss qualified attorney-at-law who specialises in international commercial and sports arbitration.
He has been involved as co-counsel and secretary in over 50 international arbitration proceedings (ICC, Swiss Arbitration, CAS). His practice encompasses a wide range of commercial topics, such as sponsoring, licensing, distribution & agency, employment, purchases and trading, web-based user agreements, mergers & acquisitions, joint venture, shareholder agreements and corporate matters. He has also acted in numerous arbitration-related litigation proceedings, including debt enforcement and attachments proceedings, enforcement and recognition of arbitral awards.
Micael has nearly 10 years of experience at the highest level of the sports industry. He has been involved in some of the most critical operations of the commercialisation of sports, including major sponsorship deals, development and organisation of international sports events, supply of equipment, licensing and distribution of TV/Media rights and broadcasting/live feed production agreements.
He has also acquired an extensive knowledge of the resolution of sports-specific disputes, having acted before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and major sports federations’ judicial bodies (FIFA, UEFA, FIBA, FIVB, UCI), in a variety of cases related to governance and associative matters, players’ eligibility and transfers, clubs or agents-related disputes, disciplinary and anti-doping proceedings.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Career
> Associate, Peter & Kim, Geneva (2023-)
> Associate, LBS LEGAL (formerly SCHOEB Avocats), Geneva (2018-2022)
> Trainee lawyer, SCHOEB avocats, Geneva (2016-2018)
> Legal Intern, MARTENS Rechtsanwälte, Munich (2015-2016)
> Legal Affairs Manager, Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), Lausanne (2014-2015)
> Teaching assistant to Prof. Antonio Rigozzi, Chair of Sports Law of the University of Neuchâtel (2012-2014)
Languages
French, English, Italian, German (passive), Spanish (passive)
Memberships
> Member of the FIVB Tribunal (contractual matters) (2021-)
> Member of the UCI’s Arbitral Board and Disciplinary Commission (2020-)
> Member of the Geneva Bar and the Swiss Bar associations (2018-)
> Member of the Swiss Association of Sports Law (ASDS) (2012-)
Education
> CAS – Ecole d’avocature (ECAV), University of Geneva (2012)
> MLaw, University of Neuchâtel (2012)
> BLaw, University of Geneva (2010)