Clever Consult helped an athlete (minor), who falls under description of a Protected Person, to prove that they bore no fault or negligence in an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV). 

Clever Consult's lawyers prevented the four-year ineligibility sanction for a protected person.

We asked Anna Antseliovich, the Head of Sports Practice of Clever Consult, about the most interesting case in her career. Anna talked about the completed case before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS), where she represented football coach Kurban Berdyev. 

The Russian tennis player was able to achieve a significant reduction of the standard sanction with the assistance of Clever Consult lawyers

Clever Consult helped young biathlete Valeria Zhabbarova to prove her innocence and avoid ineligibility for a positive doping test for meldonium

Clever Consult lawyers helped Dmitriy Kiselev, a Russian national team and CSKA Moscow handball player, to significantly reduce the period of ineligibility for a positive doping test

The Russian skier, with the help of Clever Consult, was able to prove to RUSADA his no-significant fault for anti-doping rule violation and received a significant reduction of the standard sanction

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Anna Antseliovich, the head of sports practice of Clever Consult, commented on the CAS Ad hoc Division Award in the case of Kamila Valieva. 

“The decision of the CAS Ad hoc Division in Beijing clearly demonstrates that the CAS is an independent and impartial body which takes only legal arguments into consideration and does not allow political context influence its decisions.

Clever Consult legal team helped a young Russian tennis player prove that she bore no fault in an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) and the ITF chose not to sanction the athlete.

Last week, Clever Consult lawyers got two athletes who were charged with whereabouts failures cleared of possible anti-doping rules violations.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued an award on its lack of jurisdiction over the appeal filed by a football agent against a decision of the FUR Player Status Committee. The CAS reasoned its decision by an explicit expression of will to refer disputes between the parties of the contract to Russian State Courts.

Clever Consult lawyers proved that consuming ordinary nutritional products might lead to a positive doping test result.  

Through negotiations with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Clever Consult lawyers have managed to secure Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics accreditation for one more sports official, this time representing another nation.

Anna Antseliovich, head of Clever Consult sports practice, took part in a webinar on the sports law issues related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Clever Consult lawyers have achieved a sensational victory in a landmark case today. The CAS Ad Hoc Division panel issued an award to uphold Maxim Agapitov’s appeal against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to withdraw his accreditation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.