Prof. Eligiusz Krześniak, the office managing partner of the Warsaw office of global law firm Squire Patton Boggs, has been nominated to serve as arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. In the 30 years since the CAS was created, there have only been five Poles on its list of arbitrators.
The CAS is an international arbitration court that rules as the Supreme Court in any disputes in the field of sport; it enjoys an undisputed authority in the whole sports community and its rulings have a significant impact on the shaping of sports law. In the course of its 30 years of operation, CAS has examined more than 5,000 cases. In 2017 alone, the CAS registered 572 new arbitration procedures.
An experienced arbitrator of longstanding, Prof. Krzesniak has served as a side arbitrator, the sole arbitrator and chairman in numerous procedures within two of the leading arbitration courts in Poland – the arbitration court at the National Chamber of Commerce and the arbitration court at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers, PKPP Lewiatan. He is also the chair of the Disciplinary and Regulations Committee of the Polish Golf Union.
Prof. Krzesniak joins at CAS his London office colleague Stuart McInnes, MBE, who is a well-known and highly regarded arbitrator, who has sat on more than 200 arbitrations since his appointment in 2004. As well as now having two distinguished arbitrators on the CAS list, the Squire Patton Boggs global sports law group has extensive experience at the CAS in terms of acting of counsel in numerous cases for clients around the world and a leading sports dispute resolution team that routinely deals with commercial, intellectual property, player, reputation management, corruption and regulatory issues.