Elisabeth graduated in Law from Ghent University in 2000. She also holds a Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford (2001). Elisabeth joined the Brussels office of Stibbe in 2001. She has a broad range of expertise in transfers of undertakings and the harmonisation of employment conditions in corporate restructurings and outsourcing. She also advises on recruitment, the posting of employees and the employment of foreign workers.
As a sports lawyer, Elisabeth assists major sports federations, professional sports leagues, sports authorities and sport clubs with advice and litigation regarding topics such as transfer rules, discrimination issues, matchfixing and anti-doping rules. She also assists individual athletes in disputes with federations, selection criteria and many other areas of sports law.
Starting in the academic year 2022-2023, Elisabeth Matthys is appointed as a guest professor in sports law at the Department of Movement and Sport Sciences in the Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Welcome professor Elisabeth Matthys at the VUB and our Faculty.