International commercial and sports arbitration, sports law

Partner at Klinkert Rechtsanwälte (since 2020); Associate at Klinkert Rechtsanwälte (since 2015); Associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Frankfurt (2009 - 2015).

DIS – Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V.; DIS40 - Deutsche Initiative junger Schiedsrechtler; ASDS (Association Suisse de Droit du Sport); ASA Below 40; ArbitralWoman

Annett Rombach, LL.M. (University of Miami), Partner, advises in the multifaceted areas of Sports law and in international commercial and sports arbitration matters. She has special expertise as counsel in corporate and commercial arbitration proceedings conducted under the auspices of all leading arbitration institutions. Mrs. Rombach regularly serves as arbitrator in national and international sports and commercial arbitration proceedings. As a sole arbitrator at the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) in Geneva, she has resolved more than 100 proceedings relating to contractual and employment law disputes between basketball clubs, players and agents to date. Since January 2018, she is also an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. Furthermore, Mrs. Rombach is appointed regularly as arbitrator in commercial arbitrations, and she serves as permanent arbitrator at the Court of Innovative Arbitration (COIA) in Zurich.

Admission to the Bar (2009); Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (second state examination 2008), stage at the International Dispute Resolution practice group of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York; Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Miami School of Law (USA) with a focus on International Commercial Law (2005-2006), Fulbright scholarship; Legal Study at the Free University of Berlin (first state examination 2005), scholarship at the  German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).