LOVRO BADŽIM

Medveščak 39 +385 99 261 5986

Zagreb, HR – 10000 lovro.badzim@yahoo.com

EDUCATION

The Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law, University Park, PA

• Master of Laws (LL.M.), May 2019
- Contracts, Corporations, M&A, International commercial arbitration, Law and
accounting

Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, Zagreb, Croatia
• University Specialist in Commercial and Companies Law (Univ. spec. iur., 4 Semester Postgraduate Program) Thesis,
February 2021
• currently working on a paper “Cyber risks insurance”

Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, Zagreb, Croatia
• iuris consultus diplomate probatus (4 year J.D. Program equivalent), July 2012

Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

• Bankruptcy Trustee State Exam List B, January 2017, List A, February 2018
• Bar Exam passed, December 2014

British Council, Zagreb, Croatia

• IELTS Academic, University of Cambridge ESOL exam, passed in September 2013 with 8.0 Overall Band Score

EXPERIENCE

Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Lausanne Switzerland

Arbitrator, July 2019 – Present

Court of Arbitration of the Croatian Football Federation, Zagreb, Croatia

Arbitrator, February 2018 – Present
§ Made decisions regarding various contractual disputes between Football Clubs and Players

Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia

Bankruptcy Trustee, February 2017 – Present
§ Serve as a Board member for the companies against whom the Bankruptcy proceedings are initiated
§ Ensure all assets of those companies are liquidated appropriately and creditors satisfied

Law Firm Grahovac, Horvat, Žaper Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia

Attorney-at-law, November 2015 – Present
§ Represent clients in various civil and commercial litigations and arbitrations, labor disputes, property and land registry
disputes
§ Advise clients in mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcy law, draft commercial contracts and company statutes
§ listed on the United States Embassy list of suggested attorneys in Croatia
- https://hr.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/233/Attorneys.pdf

County Court in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Court Interpreter for English, March 2014 – March 2018, reappointed March 2018 - Present
§ Translate and certify a variety of legal documents
§ Provide interpretation services at court trials

Law Firm Grahovac, Horvat, Žaper Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia

Law Trainee, July 2015 – November 2015

Tomislav Grahovac, Attorney-at-law, Zagreb, Croatia Law Trainee,

October 2012 – July 2015

ARICLES

Jurisdictional objections in the practice of the Court of arbitration for sport, Collected papers of the Faculty of law in Split, number
2 (136), year 57, Split, 2020.
Standard of proof and legal issues of doping in the case law of the CAS, with special emphasis to the current decision in the case
Sun Yang, to be published following the international conference “ Actualities in Sports law” on 1 – 2 Oct 2020 at the Split Law.

LANGUAGES

English (fluent), Croatian (native speaker), Serbian (fluent), Bosnian (fluent), Slovenian (basic knowledge)

INTERESTS

Travel, Art History, Music & Croatian Football