A team from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom convinced soccer’s international governing body to lift a one-year ban on Saoud Al-Mohannadi, vice-president of the Asian Football Confederation and Qatar Football Association.
On Thursday, a FIFA appeal committee announced it would lift the sanctions against the Skadden client, concluding that “the evidence available was not sufficient to establish to the appropriate standard, i.e. to the comfortable satisfaction of the members of the Appeal Committee, that Mr Al-Mohannadi had acted in violation” of the organization’s code of ethics.
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