Farhad Moshiri

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Baines' left foot said:
Damo v The rest of GOT :

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Rough that.
 
The Esk said:
Well 87% of businesses with Chief Compliance Officers disagree, and to be honest if I was the compliance officer I would not want to sit on the board either. I'd be happy with the delegated responsibility for compliance but I'd prefer to be separated from the board. The board would be subject to, as the rest of the business, the compliance framework laid down by external regulators (PL, FA, UEFA etc) and the internal reporting structures to the CCO. That would not make the club any more vulnerable, in fact in governance terms is a better proposition.
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You see this is the debate EFC should be having.

Is the measures in place good enough to protect the club from club employees going rogue

In favour of third parties?

You say yes. I say no.

But it's a debate worth having.


As always the top tier of the debate is occupied by the usual persons.

The lower rungs by the usual suspects.
 
bizzaro said:
You see this is the debate EFC should be having.

Is the measures in place good enough to protect the club from club employees going rogue

In favour of third parties?

You say yes. I say no.

As always the top tier of the debate is occupied by the usual persons.

The lower rungs by the usual suspects.
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You don't do yourself any favour's with your Gerbil of Gwladys Street persona.
 
MoutsGoat said:
My career story: “I was an M&A solicitor, now I’m a sports lawyer at Everton”
By Jonathon Manning 20 June 2016 00:01


Chris Anderson is head of legal services at Everton FC. He was previously a M&A lawyer at Slaughter and May before moving north to further his career in sports law.

Firstly, are you an Everton fan?

Well I am now, yes.

I identify myself as Scottish, but in English terms I grew up with Newcastle United as my team. I went to school in Newcastle and spent most of my childhood there and you can’t really avoid Newcastle United if you live in the city.

Where did your career start?

I was originally a mergers and acquisitions lawyer and I trained in Scotland with Dundas & Wilson. After I was about one year qualified I moved down to work for Slaughter and May and it was at Slaughters that I got involved in football for the first time as they were doing lots of legal work for Arsenal.

I enjoyed football a bit more than overseas joint ventures for Marks and Spencer and things like that so I thought about seeing where I could go with that. I suppose I had known about sports law before but I had always seen it as one of those jobs that you read about in a magazine and think sounds quite cool but you never have any idea about how to get into it.

So how did you move into becoming a full time sports lawyer?

From Slaughters I got the opportunity to join the sports team at Brabners, which at the time was one of the handful of firms in the UK where you could do sports law as a full time job. To my mind it was the only one you could spend the majority of your working day doing football.

Although it was a new experience for me moving to Manchester, and the salary was a lot less than what you get as a corporate associate at Slaughters, I was there for a number of years.

I worked mainly in football and exclusively in sport. While I was there I probably acted for most of the Premier League at one stage or another, and a number of overseas clubs and leagues. The Brabners sports team is no more now as it has gone and set up its own law firm, Centrefield, but it was a good place at the time.

Towards the end of my time at Brabners most of the work I was doing on a day-to-day basis was for Manchester City, Celtic or Everton. I met the Everton COO for coffee – oddly enough to chat about rugby league as we were both big fans. I was trying to get into more rugby league work and the topic of maybe joining Everton came up.

What tips would you give to someone who wants to start a legal career in a sports club?

No sports lawyers, or heads of legal at football clubs, have followed the same route. There’s not necessarily one way to do it. The best advice would be to be persistent and if you really want to do sport to be prepared to move around in the way I have done.

Be prepared to do stupid things. Moving from a City M&A career to a North West law firm to do something niche like sport is not the sort of thing your university careers adviser would tell you to do. You have to be prepared to do things that might seem stupid to other people at times. I always say to people: someone has to do the job, so why not you?

You can also maximise your career in sport if you go to a firm that does that kind of work and gives you plenty of opportunity to do the work. I would say to students: research it very carefully as there are far more firms claiming to have a sports department then actually do have a significant sports department, or that would be classified by someone in my position as being sports lawyers.

What sort of skills do you need to be a sports lawyer at a club?

You have to be comfortable with pressure and you’ve got to have an intellectual flexibility. You also have to have the ability and the confidence to pick things up and deal with them even if they are not something that you are familiar with before.

In that sense the Slaughter and May multi-specialist philosophy was terrific preparation for that, as it does give you the confidence to pick something up even if you’re new to it and deal with it.

What do you look for when recruiting a junior lawyer?

The main thing is attitude. I would not be expecting there to be many people with the full range of knowledge and technical skills and abilities that they will need as a junior lawyer. But if they’ve got the right kind of attitude I am happy that they can learn that.

Obviously, they will need the traditional things that they have trained well and that they have demonstrated an intellectual ability, which will enable them to cope. Beyond those basic things, it’s about attitude and motivation.


I wanted Damo to try and find it himself.
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I'm not sure if a mergers and acquisitions lawyer

has the specialties to tackle the issues eminating from the Telegraph revelations.

One can only hope @The Esk Everton are going to expand the 'corporate compliance' team from just apparently 1 person.

With people with experience countering fraud or personel involved in dealing with malfeasance and/or give investigatory powers at the discretion of the appointed person within the club to proactively guard against it

To investigate if a club employee involved in player acquisitions...

Has any 3rd party relationships (which might impair judgment) at detriment to EFC
 

Visitor22 said:
Aren't you the chap that was "demanding" that local govt threw their compliance procedures out of the window to give favours to Everton on the basis that "the club pays loads to them for Finch Farm"
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No.

And at no point did I advocate bribing public officials either. o_O

I said. The public officials should remember the importance of EFC as one of the largest companies in Liverpool, when dealing with the club.
 
Visitor22 said:
Aren't you the chap that was "demanding" that local govt threw their compliance procedures out of the window to give favours to Everton on the basis that "the club pays loads to them for Finch Farm"
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Visitor, you mysterious and potentially wonderful man, if you have this post in your locker, now is a great time for it to be shared
 


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