Jaime Cambreleng Contreras

Attorney-at-law; LL.M., Partner

Languages:

English | French | Spanish 

+41 78 778 6884

jc@cavaliero-cambreleng.com

 

Jaime regularly advises national and international sports organisations, clubs, athletes, agencies and other various sports stakeholders in front of decision-making bodies of international and national sports federations as well as in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Jaime also advises in the drafting of contracts and regulations, as well as in the handling of disciplinary, ethics and contractual proceedings within sports federations. His expertise covers all contractual, disciplinary (including anti-doping, ethics, match-fixing, etc.), financial and licensing matters. 

 

Jaime joined the firm as a partner in 2022, when it still operated under its previous name Cavaliero & Associates. He did so after having worked for more than seven years in the FIFA legal affairs division.

 

Jaime became the organization’s first Head of Litigation in 2018. In such role, Jaime lead a team entrusted with the defence of all decisions passed by the different bodies of FIFA that were challenged before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

 

Between 2014 and 2018, Jaime worked at FIFA’s Disciplinary department of which he became the Head in 2017. In that role and as Secretary to the FIFA Disciplinary and Appeal Committees, Jaime was responsible for supervising disciplinary procedures related to breaches of several FIFA regulations, including infringements related to match incidents, match manipulation, international transfers of minor players, failure to comply with FIFA or CAS decisions, doping, third party influence and ownership, etc.

 

During his time at FIFA, Jaime participated in -and oversaw- over 400 arbitral procedures on a wide variety of disputes on several topics: contractual, employment-related, governance, doping, ethics violations, match manipulation, third party influence (TPI) and third party ownership (TPO), sporting succession, etc.

 

Prior to joining FIFA, Jaime worked for an international law firm in Spain, specializing in corporate law. 

 

Jaime was admitted into the Madrid Bar Association after obtaining his Law Degree from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid, Spain where he also obtained a Diploma in International Relations. He also holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, Spain. Jaime is also registered at the Geneva Bar.

Aside from being a lecturer in several sports law programmes such as ITTI, ISDE, University of Lausanne or FIFA’s Diploma in Football Law, Jaime is regularly invited to participate as a speaker in conferences and he has published articles on international sports law.

 

Jaime is the Vice-Chairperson of the Disciplinary Panel of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and clerk of the Tribunal of the Equestrian International Federation (FEI). He is also an arbitrator at the Qatar Sports Arbitration Tribunal (QSAT) and a member of the Club Español de Arbitraje (CEA).Jaime is the Academic Director of the Master in International Sport Management of ITTI Sports Institute.

  • Employment relationship between players and clubs, ITTI-AIAF Master in Football Law, Barcelona, October 2024;
  • Match fixing and Anti-Doping, ITTI Master in International Sport Management, Barcelona, October 2024;
  • CAS - Mysterious or Misunderstood?, Ankura Sports Governance, Compliance, and Investigations Conference, Lausanne, January 2024;
  • Anti-Doping Rules and Key Anti-Doping case law, AFC Legal Workshop 2023, Kuala Lumpur, November 2023;
  • Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Sport, ITTI Master in International Sport Management, Barcelona, October 2023;
  • Articles 2.3 to 2.9 of the WADA Code, FIFA Anti-Doping Programme, Paris, April 2023;
  • Disciplinary Disputes in International Sports, International and National Equestrian Sports Arbitration Conference, Abu Dhabi, February 2023;
  • Sporting succession in football, International Sports Lawyers Association (ISLA) Coffee Break, December 2022;
  • Manipulación de partidos y apuestas en el fútbol, 6° Curso Legal Deportivo de la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol, Bogotá, November 2022;
  • Recomendaciones y buenas prácticas en procedimientos disciplinarios, 6° Curso Legal Deportivo de la Federación Colombiana de Fútbol, Bogotá, November 2022;
  • Round table on Dispute Resolution, Football Law in Practice course, LawInSport, September 2022;
  • Round table on Key cases, 8th LawInSport Annual Conference "Understand The Rules Of The Game 2022", London, September 2022;
  • Player Management and Scope of Sports Law, Global Soccer Conclave, September 2022;
  • CAS leading cases in football, FIFA Executive Programme in Sports Arbitration, April 2022;
  • FIFA Global Integrity Programme, CAS 2019/A/6219 Sidio José Mugadza v. FIFA, November 2021;
  • Succession of Clubs, Football Law Digital Conference 2021, Law in Sport, May 2021;
  • Round table on Execution of Monetary Decisions, Extra time: MSL Football Conference, May 2021;
  • CAS leading cases (Disciplinary), FIFA Diploma in Football Law, Zurich, March 2021;
  • Football & the law in COVID-19 times, AJA Madrid, March 2021.
  • CAS proceedings against FIFA decisions in 2020: leading cases (II), FIFA Football Law Annual Review 2020, Zurich, March 2021;
  • CAS leading cases in football, Executive Programme in Sports Arbitration, January 2021;
  • International Transfers of Minors, FIFA Diploma in Football Law, Zurich, September 2020;
  • Invited lecturer at Université de Lausanne, FIFA’s decisions at CAS November 2019 & 2020, Lausanne;
  • Round table on Arbitration, ISDE Sports Convention, Madrid, May 2019;
  • CAS proceedings: figures and leading cases, FIFA Football Law Annual Review 2018, Zurich, February 2019;
  • Invited lecturer at Université de Lausanne, FIFA Disciplinary proceedings and case law, November 2018, Lausanne;
  • CAS case law 2016-2018, UEFA Disciplinary Workshop, Cyprus, September 2018.
  • Sporting Succession - A continuous hot topic, Jaime Cambreleng & Marc Cavaliero, Swedish Journal of Sports Law 2023.
  • Book on Sporting Succession in Football, J. Cambreleng Contreras – S. Samarth – J.F. Vandellós Alamilla (eds.), International Sports Law and Policy Bulletin 1/2022, September 2022
  • They Are Not My Witnesses, Jaime Cambreleng, Football Legal No. 16, December 2021.
  • A Pragmatic View into the FIFA Judicial Bodies’ Jurisprudence on Third Party Influence, Jaime Cambreleng, Football Legal No. 11, June 2019.
  • Failure to respect a decision: case law when the debtor is a natural person, Marc Cavaliero & Jaime Cambreleng, Football Legal No. 6, December 2016.