FIFA re-jigs in-house legal team in wake of marketing controversy
Football governing body FIFA has appointed Jorg Vollmuller as its new marketing head of legal.
April 25, 2007 at 10:19 PM
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Football governing body FIFA has appointed Jorg Vollmuller as its new marketing head of legal.
Vollmuller, who joined FIFA last month, will report to the international football association's general counsel and legal director, Marco Villiger.
He joins from German sports rights marketing group Sportfive and is now based at FIFA's headquarters in Zurich.
Earlier this year FIFA's marketing head of legal Tom Houseman left the body along with three other marketing executives, after a New York judge ruled that it had acted wrongly in a World Cup sponsorship dispute.
The dispute centred on sponsorship talks held by the four with Visa in 2006, which the judge ruled breached an earlier agreement made with credit card rival Mastercard. FIFA signed a contract with Visa rejecting Mastercard's lower bid despite Mastercard's right of first refusal.
FIFA is the international governing body for football and is responsible for organising and governing the sport's major international tournaments.
UK law firms instructed by FIFA include Olswang, DLA Piper and Hammonds.
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