Gaming
Navigating complexity in the evolving gaming sector.
As the gaming industry expands and new technologies and gaming approaches emerge, our lawyers provide forward-looking counsel and protection.
Perkins Coie is a go-to advisor to industry-leading and emerging gaming companies—from startups to regional operators to some of the largest gaming and gaming-affiliated companies in the United States. The expansion of gaming across the country has brought new opportunities, for traditional (brick-and-mortar) companies, emerging digital gaming operators, and for companies affiliated with gaming, like payment processors, internet and data service providers, and social media platforms. Because gaming is among the most heavily regulated industries in the United States, industry participants are subject to strict oversight, and the consequences of noncompliance can be severe. State-to-state differences in gaming laws and regulations make compliance more complicated. And, compliance is further complicated by the emergence of new technologies, platforms, and innovative gaming approaches that are not yet fully addressed or contemplated by current regulatory regimes.
Our gaming lawyers have a deep understanding of the development of laws in this area. We advise clients on all aspect of licensing, compliance, and gaming operations, and we routinely represent clients before gaming commissions and regulators. Perkins Coie’s depth enables our gaming team to help gaming clients address the many other issues they face relating to corporate formation, financing, and governance, acquisition and mergers, technology transfers, privacy, contracts and license agreements, employment, real estate, litigation, intellectual property, internal investigations, marketing and advertising, anti-money laundering (AML), and payment processing.
How we help clients
- Licensing, compliance, and gaming operations
We frequently represent
- Brick-and-mortar establishments
- Burgeoning digital gaming ventures
- Companies that provide ancillary support to the industry, such as payment processors, internet and data service providers
Our Team
Insights
Professional Experience
Representative Experience
- Advise casino operators on federal and state gambling laws, licensing requirements, and regulatory matters concerning casino gaming, iGaming, and sports betting
- Advise cloud service providers, infrastructure providers, and payment processors on federal and state gambling laws and state laws requirements, gambling laws, licensing requirements, and regulatory matters concerning casino gaming, iGaming, and sports betting
- Represent casino and online gaming operators before local gaming authorities.
- Experience testifying before state legislature on gaming issues and legislation and submitting comments to proposed sports betting and iGaming legislation and rules promulgated by local gaming authorities.
- Represent gaming operators in connection with mobile app and website development, data privacy, and data mining issues.
- Advise gaming operators on advertising, privacy compliance programs, and related issues
- Draft and negotiate software licensing and service agreements
- Assisted cryptocurrency issuer and online gaming operator with global corporate structure, country-by-country compliance approach, analysis of game and services offerings, terms of service, technology development, and IP protection regime, and platform operations (including vendor and sublicense agreements)
- Represent international gaming company in class action lawsuit alleging social gaming site is an unlawful gaming
- Represented casino license applicant in breach of contract case against municipality for the exclusive right to operate a casino in the city.
- Served as amicus counsel for casino operator in case addressing the scope of state gambling laws and application to skill-based gaming.