Miami and Washington, D.C., attorneys turned the tables on plaintiffs seeking “at least hundreds of millions of dollars” in an antitrust lawsuit linked to professional soccer’s biggest scandal.
Miami-based Carey Rodriguez Milian Gonya teamed with international law firm Amsterdam & Partners to defend professional soccer governing body Conmebol, the South American Football Confederation. They filed a motion to dismiss the entire action for the court’s lack of personal jurisdiction. Together, the attorneys helped beat back allegations in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that Conmebol was part of a corrupt global operation that accepted bribes to award broadcast and marketing rights to professional soccer tournaments.
