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Mr. Massimo Coccia is founding partner of Coccia De Angelis & Associati law firm. He holds a J.D. degree cum laude from the Law School of the University of Rome Sapienza (1981) and a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the University of Michigan Law School (1984), which he attended with a Fulbright fellowship.
Mr. Coccia’s mother tongue is Italian and he also is fluent in English, Spanish and French.
It is universally recognized that Mr. Coccia has an extensive experience of, and is an authority in, sports law and in commercial arbitration at international and national level, both as an arbitrator and as a counsel, as attested by Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal) at the following link: https://www.lexology.com/firms/21470/Massimo_Coccia. Indeed, along the years he has been involved in almost 400 arbitration proceedings, most of them at international level. He also has been frequently involved in regulatory matters such as antitrust and energy, as well as in civil and commercial law matters with transnational features. Within sports law he has been frequently retained as legal advisor or counsel by international and national federations, leagues, clubs, teams, agents and athletes of various sports. Within football, in particular, Mr. Coccia held the no. 2 position within the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in 2006-2007, when he was appointed as Deputy Interim Commissioner in the wake of a match-fixing scandal and authored important reforms of the rules and governance of FIGC. Since 1995, Massimo Coccia has been an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), where he is regarded as one of the most experienced and respected arbitrators, having sat in about 300 cases and drafted many prominent awards, having also been a CAS arbitrator at the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, Turin 2006 and London 2012.
In the academic field, Prof. Massimo Coccia has recently retired from university teaching, having taught in the last years European Competition Law both in Italian and English at the Law School of the University of Rome Sapienza and, previously, International Law at the Tuscia University in Viterbo. Massimo has been also frequently called to teach in graduate courses and seminars on sports law as well as on international arbitration. He has published extensively on issues of sports law, international arbitration, international trade law and EU law, and is often invited to speak at symposia on those subjects. Among his latest publications are a book in English on international sports justice (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375888401_INTERNATIONAL_SPORTS_JUSTICE_Massimo_Coccia_Michele_Colucci_eds) and a hornbook in Italian on the law of international arbitration (https://www.academia.edu/127850550/Introduzione_al_diritto_dellarbitrato_internazionale_Copertina_Indice_Introduzione_).
Some publications by Prof. Massimo Coccia are available on Academia.edu and on https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimo-Coccia/research.
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