Luis Torres Montero

Luis is an attorney and member of the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Valencia (Valencia Bar Association) who specializes in arbitration and contractual and regulatory advisory for athletes, agents, and sporting entities.  He contributes his extensive experience in football player transfer operations, as well as drafting and negotiating representation agreements, a practice he engaged in during his time at an English law firm, where he began his professional career.  Additionally, he has ample experience in resolving disputes at the national and international level, defending the interests of the firm’s clients in federative and arbitration proceedings of a sporting nature, particularly before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), UEFA, and FIFA.

Education

• Bachelor´s Degree in Law, Universidad de Valencia

• Master’s Degree ISDE-IUSPORT in International Sports Law, Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) – Honorable Mention

• Summer Programme on International Sports Law, ASSER Instituut

Teaching

He is a professor in the Master’s Degree in International Sports Law at the Escuela Universitaria Real Madrid-Universidad Europea and the Master’s in Sports Law at LaLiga Business School.

Publications

• Buy-out Clauses. Football Legal, issue 19 (2023).

• "Dificultades probatorias ante el TAS: análisis de su problemática y casuística", in ORTEGA BURGOS, E., GARCÍA CABA, M.Á., FERRER, L., et alia, Derecho deportivo 2023. Tirant lo Blanch, 2023.

• "Discriminatory Chants in Football & Sanctions: The Approach of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee", in Football Legal Journal, 2023.

• "Noción de "decisión" a los efectos del artículo R47 del Código del TAS", in BARAK, E., PÉREZ TRIVIÑO, L., FERRER, L., et alia, El arbitraje en el TAS. Funcionamiento, procedimiento y cuestiones prácticas más relevantes". Aranzadi, 2021. 

• "El principio de responsabilidad solidaria del nuevo club en el fútbol a la luz del artículo 17(2) del Reglamento sobre el estatuto y la transferencia de jugadores FIFA («RETJ»)", in ORTEGA BURGOS, E., GARCÍA CABA, M.Á., FERRER, L., et alia, Derecho deportivo 2021. Tirant lo Blanch, 2021.

• "In the Hot Seat: Expert Witnesses and Testimony at CAS", in Football Legal Journal, 2020.

• "Will the changes implemented in the FIFA Code of Ethics in 2018 improve the global governance of football? ", in Football Legal, 2019.

• "The LAMPTEY case: A decision without Precedents", in Football Legal, 2018.

• "FIFA’s new approach to the enforcement of monetary decisions", in European Leagues Legal Newsletter, issue 4 (2018).

• "Claves de la reducción de la sanción a Sharapova: análisis del reciente Laudo del TAS", in Revista Aranzadi de Derecho de Deporte y Entretenimiento, issue 53 (016).

• "A Bridge Too Far? Bridge Transfers at the Court of Arbitration for Sport", in Asser International Sports Law Blog.