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Leading Sports Lawyer – Legal 500 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024
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Leading Sports Lawyer – Who's Who Legal 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024
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Leading Sports Lawyer – Chambers & Partners 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024
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Leading Sports Lawyer - Leaders League 2022/2023
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Chambers and Partners (2024): David Casserly maintains a highly eminent practice, with particular expertise in acting for prominent football clubs before the CAS. He also regularly advises on athlete transfers and club investments. Testimonials: "David is extremely intelligent and smart. The way he approaches complex legal matters is quite unique, and that makes him exceptional. In litigation and particularly in cross-examination he is feared"; "David is a world-leading sports disputes lawyer with outstanding technical and strategic skills and attention to detail, and is a supreme orator and communicator".
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Legal 500 (2024): Ranking - Hall of Fame. The Kellerhals Carrard team is headed by David Casserly SC, who is qualified as an Irish barrister and was appointed as a silk there in 2023, whose practice covers advising on significant commercial sports deals such as player transfers and club investments and representing international clients before CAS. Testimonials: “Mr. David Casserly SC is without a doubt one of the best, if not the best, lawyer in sports law. His career speaks for itself, representing the biggest clubs and federations in the world. His unique ability to organize and his systematically thinking means that clients can entrust him with the most diverse and complex cases”; “David Casserly SC is a great professional. Sharp, competent, tenacious. Excellent intuitive skills. Outstanding litigator. A master”.
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Who’s Who Legal (2024): ‘Thought Leader’ David Casserly receives widespread endorsements for his top-tier sports practice encompassing high-profile disputes, transfers and investments.
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Chambers and Partners (2023): David Casserly maintains a highly eminent practice, with particular expertise in acting for prominent football clubs before the CAS. He also regularly advises on athlete transfers and club investments. A sports client in Europe remarks "His technical expertise is only matched by his strategic insight."
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Legal 500 (2023): 'Leading Individual' "David Casserly's strengths involve disputes and transactional work." Testimonial: 'David Casserly - world-leading partner and advocate in the sports sector who adds significant strategic value to any matter he is instructed on.'
- Chambers and Partners (2022): David Casserly maintains a highly eminent practice, with particular expertise acting for prominent football clubs before the CAS. A pleased source mentions that he has "knowledge and expertise in the subject matter," further praising "his profound understanding of the CAS system."
- Legal 500 (2022): David Casserly specialises in football law. Testimonial: 'David Casserly is by far the best lawyer I have worked with. He is very well organised, thinks quickly and is very thoughtful and balanced. Further, when it comes to arbitration, he is a true counsel that you can always count on.’ ‘As strong on strategy as he is on the law, David Casserly is our go-to for disputes in particular.’