Enrique Arnaldo Benzo

Enrique Arnaldo Benzo holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Pontifica Comillas (ICADE), where he studied Law and Business Studies between Madrid, Spain and Córdoba, Argentina, and completed his studies in 2012, becoming a member of the Madrid Bar Association that same year.

Subsequently, he entered the prestigious Official Master’s Degree in Sports Law at the University of Lleida, one of the leaders in this sector, where he obtained the extraordinary prize for the best qualification for his Master’s Thesis, entitled “The integrity of sports competitions: A legal approach to the match-fixing phenomenon“. All this while he combined his studies with the practice of law at ACM Legal (Legálitas Group), in the area of Litigation Law.

After working as a lawyer for more than six years and with a clear academic vocation on the one hand and, on the other, in the field of Sports Law, he began to work in the legal department of the Spanish Basketball Federation, while he began to teach in the same Master’s Degree he had studied years before, in different editions in Spain, Colombia and Chile.

He is also the author of several publications on Commercial and Sports Law, and has also translated into the language of Cervantes the renowned work Tomorrow’s Lawyer, by Richard Susskind, which examines the future of the legal profession in the 21st century.

Currently, after practicing law for 10 years, he now combines his work at Statera Legal Partners as a partner and, with his position as Coordinator of the Postgraduate and Research Institute of the Fundación Universitaria Fray Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. He also collaborates in the field of teaching with the Master’s programmes on Access to the Legal Profession at various national universities. Finally, it should be noted that he is currently studying for a PhD in Constitutional Law at the Complutense University of Madrid.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Partner at STATERA LEGAL PARTNERS. Law firm, Madrid, Spain, 2022 – Present

• Coordinator of Instituto de Postgrado e Investigación at CES Cardenal Cisneros, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Director ISDE Sports Convention, ISDE University, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Arbitrator, European Association of Arbitration, Spain, 2021 – Present

• President of the Sports Law Section, Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (ICAM), Spain, 2018 – Present

• Lawyer at Spanish Basketball Federation, Spain, 2018 – 2021

• Member of the Commission of Experts for the amendment of the Sports Law of the Community of Madrid, Spain, 2015 – 2017

• Counsel at Court of Arbitration for Sport, Switzerland, 2016 – 2017

• Litigation attorney, ACM Legal, Madrid, Spain, 2012 – 2017

• General Coordinator, Cátedra de Estudios e Investigación en Derecho Deportivo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain, 2012 – 2017

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Law, Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession, IE University, Spain, 2016 – Present

• Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession, CES Cardenal Cisneros, Spain, 2018 –  Present

• Adjunct Professor of Law, ISDE, Spain, 2017 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Lleida (INEFC Lleida), Spain, 2017 – 2019

• Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Lleida (INEFC Lleida), Colombia, 2017 – 2019

• Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Lleida (INEFC Lleida), Chile, 2017 – 2019

• Adjunct Professor of Law, European University of Madrid, Spain, 2017 – 2018

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Constitutional Law, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Master in Sports Law, University of Lleda,, Spain, 2013 – 2015

• Bachelor in Law, (E-1), ICADE University, Spain, 2006 – 2012