Christopher A. Gulla, Esquire
The President & Founder of ACD Agency
AGENT EXPERIENCE
While attending Rutgers Law School, Gulla worked under NBA super-agent Leon Rose of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Sports and assisted Leon with all day-to-day activities associated with representing polarizing figures such as Allen Iverson, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James. Gulla founded ACD Agency in 2019 after becoming a certified player agent with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) and Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA).
Under Gulla’s leadership, ACD’s basketball division has experienced consistent growth. Gulla has personally represented players in some of the world’s best professional basketball leagues spanning across six (6) different continents. His clients have signed contracts in leagues inclusive of the NBA G-League, WNBA, FIBA Europe Cup, East Asia Super League, BBL Germany, Spain LF Endesa, BNXT, Canada CEBL, Romania LNB, UK BBL and many others. He’s also coordinated sponsorship agreements for ACD clients with companies that include Reebok, AT&T, HyperX, Razer, LG, Amazon Music, White Castle, Juju Energy and more.
Legal Experience
Gulla has over 10 years of experience as a practicing attorney in the sports and entertainment law space. He is licensed to practice law in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Gulla is frequently retained by third party sports agencies, professional basketball players and basketball-related businesses to provide specialized legal services. He’s appeared before the FIBA Basketball Arbitration Tribunal (BAT) and has assisted countless players in complex contractual disputes with clubs both domestically and internationally. Other legal services he’s been retained to provide include strategic contractual counseling (including contract review/negotiation/preparation/termination), immigration law assistance, intellectual property protection, regulatory and administrative law analysis, public/media statement preparation, corporate and civil litigation and more.
Basketball Experience
Prior to founding ACD, Gulla spent over a decade playing and coaching NCAA men’s basketball. Following his own NCAA playing career, Gulla embarked on a 7-year college coaching journey that included roles on the staff of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Herb Magee and years coaching alongside the 1991 NBA Draft’s #3 Overall Pick - Billy Owens. In 2017-18, he helped lead the men at Philadelphia University to a Conference (CACC) Championship and an NCAA Division II Tournament appearance. Prior to that, during a memorable 2014-15 season at Rutgers-Camden, Gulla played a pivotal role in leading the men’s program to its best overall record since 2001-02 and its first postseason berth since 1976.
Gulla served 8 years as Director of Player Development for one of the middle Atlantic region’s largest youth basketball programs: The Basketball Development Group. Here, while working with an affiliate AAU program known as the South Jersey Jazz that has helped 150+ players transition from high school to the college basketball court, Gulla personally mentored and trained countless boys and girls who desired to play at the college level. He also organized grand scale AAU tournaments in various locations along the east coast and added the title of Club Counsel for the non-profit youth program upon becoming a licensed attorney in 2013.
Gulla has spent time working in the Athletics Compliance Department of Villanova University, a perennial college basketball powerhouse that won NCAA Division I men’s basketball National Championships in 1984-85, 2015-16 and 2017-18. He assisted with all aspects of the University’s NCAA compliance efforts and personally gave Rules Education presentations to head coach Jay Wright on multiple occasions.