Benoît Keane BCL LLM, Solicitor – Keane Legal (Brussels) Benoît Keane is a leading European sports lawyer who specializes in the application of EU and antitrust law to sport. He regularly represents sports organizations before the EU courts and authorities. Mr. Keane has acted in many of the most prominent EU sports law cases of the last decade relating to both the regulatory and commercial aspects of sport. He is currently representing UEFA, the European soccer federation, in the antitrust cases concerning its “financial fair play” rules designed to limit the indebtedness of European soccer clubs. He acted in the first case before the European Court of Justice concerning the EU’s audiovisual legislation on major sports events. Also, he represented an intervener in the seminal “Murphy” case concerning the application of EU antitrust law to exclusive broadcasting agreements. A native of Ireland, Benoît Keane read law at University College Cork (1998) and then obtained a master’s degree in European law at the College of Europe in Belgium (1999). In 2003, he qualified as a Solicitor (England & Wales) having undertaken, as part of his training, an internship at the European Commission. Between 2003 and 2012, Mr. Keane worked at several highly-respected international law firms in Brussels where he developed his EU sports law practice. In 2012, heset up Keane Legal, a boutique practice that focuses on EU sports law, in order to represent sports clients directly and indirectly through instructions from law firms.
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