Gaming & Betting
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Healys Gaming & Betting team have extensive experience in dealing with all aspects of both online and land-based gaming. The team advises on a broad range of legal issues relevant to both online and land-based gaming, gambling and betting companies, their suppliers and service providers. Our clients have included multi-national businesses, European governments, sole proprietor enterprises and new technology start-up companies.
We aim to get deals done and understand the issues that face a commercial business. Our Gaming & Betting team aims to provide straightforward legal advice to help you avoid any possible pitfalls and provide you with new opportunities through which you can grow your business.
How We Can Help
We have a close network of experts from the gaming and i-gaming sectors and we regularly advise operators of both on a wide range of issues. The team offers expertise on a full range of legal services throughout the firm and with this we are able to offer a one-stop-shop service for our clients.
We advise companies from the start-up stage to mature multinational companies. We provide legal services and give advice relating to:
- Corporate finance
- Commercial services
- Appropriate corporate structure and jurisdiction of operation
- Registration and licensing
- Gambling and betting regulation
- Compliance with UK, EU, US and other laws affecting the company
- Terms and conditions
- Licensing and IP protection of software, trademarks and copyrights
- Distribution, partnership and sponsorship agreements
- Data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Real Estate
- Commercial Property
- Property leasing and purchase
- Immigration and employment law issues
- Insolvency
- Private client issues for company management and owners
We take pride in the partnerships we forge with our clients and our ability to anticipate our clients’ needs allows us to offer them commercial solutions to legal problems.
Recent Experience
- Advised an EU government in relation to their gambling policy, advised on EU law regulating gambling and drafted suitable best practice gambling legislation and regulations, which have been enacted
- Advised a major US gambling consultancy company on their expansion to Europe by advising them on the law and best practices AML policies and practices under Malta and EU Anti-money laundering law
- Advised numerous gaming and betting operator companies with respect to obtaining licenses with the UK Gambling Commission
- Advised a number of gaming software companies in obtaining licenses from the UK Gambling Commission
- Advised a UK based payment systems provider with respect to operations in various US states supporting legal online gaming and horse-race betting
- Advised a UK telecommunications company with providing advice on the US Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
- Advised a leading international television production company with respect to their television games offerings in the US
- Advised several start-up companies in structuring online games offerings to avoid regulation by the UK Gambling Act 2015
- Advised a major US based casino company with respect to numerous agreements with suppliers
- Advised a major US based casino company with respect to public tender for a casino in Europe
- Advised major US based casino company and major international airline in proposed joint venture for gambling on aircraft
- Provided support and guidance while lobbying with leading US casino companies in run up to passage of Gambling Act 2005
Get in touch
Contact Us
If you require any information on the service we offer please contact David Gordon on 020 7822 4195 or email david.gordon@healys.com alternatively you can fill in the form below.