Anton SOTIR Managing Partner, GoldenGate Law Firm
Education:
Certificate in International Sports Law, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK).
LL.M. (summa cum laude) in International Sports Law, ISDE (Madrid, Spain).
LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden).
LL.B. (summa cum laude), National University “Law Academy named after Yaroslav Mudryi” (Kharkov, Ukraine).
Professional experience:
Anton Sotir is the managing partner at GoldenGate Law Firm. He regularly represents his clients in various international disputes, commercial arbitration and sports law cases. His experience includes handling arbitration proceedings at many institutions, including LCIA, SCC, ICC, ICAC, VIAC, CAS, GAFTA/FOSFA, and at ad hoc tribunals.
He also serves as an arbitrator adjudicating commercial disputes, and acts as permanent arbitrator in the Dispute Resolution Chamber of the Football Federation of Ukraine. In addition, he has broad experience of enforcing arbitral awards and foreign court decisions in Ukraine. Besides his private practice, he acts as a consultant at Lombardi Associates, with a special focus on the Central and Eastern European region.
Anton is an author of many articles in the spheres of commercial arbitration, sports law, maritime and transportation. He is a contributor to various books acting as an expert for Ukraine, including the 1st edition of the International Arbitration (2015), The FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries (2015), The Sports Law Review (2016).
Practice Areas:
International Arbitration, Sports Law, Maritime Law, International Commercial Law
Languages:
Ukrainian, Russian, English
GoldenGate Law Firm
- Tel.:
- +380 44 392 8907
- Fax:
- +380 44 248 0009
- E-mail:
- info@goldengate-law.com
- Web-site:
- www.goldengate-law.com
GoldenGate is a young boutique law firm with a particular focus on international sports law, commercial arbitration and business law. Swiss quality, English eye for detail, Italian creativity and Ukrainian tenacity are the milestones for the firm’s development and success.
GoldenGate is committed to providing the highest quality legal services. We focus primarily on the Client’s needs and our crucial goal is to resolve the matter our Client entrusted to us exclusively within the Client’s interest and in line with the highest ethical standards.
GoldenGate works closely with international legal advisors from numerous jurisdictions. Our brand implies the idea of being a “legal bridge” between Ukrainian market and foreign companies, taking care of a Client’s problems and needs while doing business in Ukraine.
The team of GoldenGate, which is truly internationally oriented, includes highly qualified, talented, multilingual lawyers. Most of them gained valuable experience and knowledge studying and working abroad.
The firm’s lawyers constantly advise and represent Clients in international commercial disputes before arbitration panels under the rules of various institutions, including LCIA, SCC, ICC, ICAC, VIAC and CAS. We also provide services to Ukrainian and international companies engaged in international commerce, requiring constant legal support over their import/export transactions. The firm’s Sports Law practice deserves special attention; in 2015 alone, the firm’s lawyers were involved in 48 sports-related arbitral proceedings of an overall dispute amount of around €62 million, and supported 47 football transfers worth around EUR 97 million, as the leading firm in this area of law.
The principle practice areas:
- International Arbitration
- Sports Law
- Maritime and Transportation
- Litigation
- Banking and Finance
- M&A and Corporate Law
- Antitrust and Competition
- Intellectual Property
