Dr. Holger Jakob, LL.M.Eur.

Areas of expertise

• Sports contract law (in particular sponsorship contracts),
• Sports employment law (in particular player contracts)
• Sports corporate law (in particular club and association law, membership rights)
• Sports antitrust law (in particular licensing disputes)

Dr. Holger Jakob advises German and English-speaking clients on matters of sports and esports law. For almost 20 years, Dr. Holger Jakob has been advising athletes, clubs and associations in sports, including professional soccer. He also has a close network in the professional esports scene. From 2018-2020 he was General Counsel of one of the best-known esports organizations in the world. Dr. Holger Jakob is a sports judge at the German Court of Arbitration for Sport and at the Association Arbitration Court of the ESBD – eSport-Bund Deutschland e.V.

• 1993 – 1998 Studied law at the University of Heidelberg
• 1998 – 1999 Master of European Law (LL.M. Eur.), Saarland University
• 1999 – 2001 Legal clerkship in Berlin, Speyer and Kathmandu
• 2002 Admitted to the bar
• 2004 – 2007 Lawyer at Jakob & von Notz
• 2007 – 2008 Lawyer at Brehm & von Moers
• 2008 Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Heidelberg
• 2008 – 2016 Legal Counsel, Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin & Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin
• 2017 – 2018 Head of the legal department, authorized signatory, mybet Holding SE
• 2018 – 2019 Head of Legal, G Esports Holding GmbH
• 2008 – 2019 independent lawyer
• 2020 – 2023 Lawyer at MELCHERS LAW
• Arbitrator at the German Court of Arbitration for Sport since 2008
• since 2019 Arbitrator at the ESBD – Esport-Bund Deutschland e.V.
• since 2023 Specialist lawyer for sports law
• since 2024 Senior Legal Counsel at Oddset Sportwetten GmbH
• since 2024 Of-Counsel at HÄRTING