Dr Dirk-Reiner Martens is Partner at Martens Rechtsanwälte. Since 2000, he has acted in more than 170 proceedings relating to commercial law or sports law, as either a party-appointed arbitrator or President of the tribunal. In 2007, he established the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT). Since the BAT foundation, more than 1 100 cases have been brought before it. Dr Martens is included in the list of arbitrators of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Arbitration Tribunal of the International Automobile Federation (FIA, Formula 1), American Arbitration Association (AAA) and International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). He has also lectured at the University of Neuchâtel for the Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport (FIFA Master), as well as in International Commercial Arbitration at Bucerius Law School and in International Sports Law at the Higher Institute of Law and Economics (ISDE).