Sébastien Besson

Sébastien Besson joined Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler as a partner in May 2015. He is a well-known practitioner and respected scholar with long-standing experience in international arbitration in Switzerland and abroad.Sébastien’s practice includes sport disputes and arbitral proceedings before the CAS where he has acted as counsel or legal expert in several high profile cases.Sébastien Besson also teaches sport law (including association law and contracts) and dispute resolution in sport at the University of Neuchâtel and has published extensively in the field of inter­national arbitration and sport disputes. He notably contributes to a yearly review of sport case law in the Revue de l’arbitrage.