Brazilian lawyer Marcos Motta will reflect on the challenges of the transfer system and football agents in the face of coronavirus crisis at the next ISDE Webinar, the online talk promoted by the Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía (ISDE) to be held on 7 May (20:00). Marcos Motta, international sports lawyer and professor at ISDE, will give a lecture under the title ‘The challenges of the player transfer system and the role of agents and lawyers in times of COVID-19’.

Founding partner of Bichara e Motta Advogados, Marcos Motta holds a Diploma in Contemporary Commercial Law and a Master’s Degree in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick (UK), an Honorary Master’s Degree in International Sports Law from ISDE, as well as a degree in negotiation and leadership from Harvard Law School.

Motta is a board member of the European Football Agents Association (EFAA) and the International Association of Football Lawyers (AIAF). He has worked in the world of football since 1997, when he started as Director and international representative of Flamengo. Since then, he has been involved as legal advisor in more than 400 major cases before FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in contract negotiation, disciplinary and doping matters.

In addition, he has provided legal advice on some of the most important player transfers in the history of football. He is currently the legal advisor for international matters for the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and also worked for the Rio Olympic Games in 2016.

This is the third ISDE Webinar during the state of emergency decreed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the two previous editions, the Brazilian lawyer Daniel Cravo, ISDE’s expert in sports law and member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Football Lawyers (AIAF), and the Director of the Women’s Football Area of LaLiga, Pedro Malabia, took part.