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In this fast-paced world you are seeking a pro-active business services partner that moves your company forward, someone who understands your challenges and the importance of commitment.
From our offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, our dedicated team of legal and business services professionals can guide you in developing and delivering on your roadmap for sustainable success and provide you with advice that will not only safeguard your business interests but ensure you reap commercial rewards.
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Providing you with strategic guidance and well considered advice, we are renowned for the depth and breadth of our legal services and our understanding of the industries in which you operate. We recognise your needs and offer business focussed legal services, together with advice that makes commercial sense. One firm, in any case With over 150 years of experience, we have cultivated a seamless ‘one-firm’ approach that is tailored to your personal needs and pairs you with the best legal and strategic business professionals in your field; whenever, wherever, and in any case.
By leveraging our sector expertise, legal skills and market experience, you can feel safe in the knowledge that we will both handle complex legal issues on your behalf while providing you with expert strategic advice when the need arises.
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A wealth of professional services, local and global Whether you are a start-up, an established organisation or an individual, we provide you with first-class professional and legal services designed to meet your specific needs. As your trusted global partner, we can manage all your legal and strategic requirements internationally. Our lawyers have extensive online UK and Gibraltar gambling experience from in-house and private practice. Members of the team are associated with the International Masters of Gaming Law, International Association of Gaming Attorneys and the Gibraltar’s Gambling and Betting Association.
How we work Our priority is to provide you with solutions tailored to your business. Our extensive experience and industry knowledge regularly sees us working with a network of the foremost international gambling professionals and regulators to meet your global business needs. We have developed a number of tools and solutions to enable you to become compliant and more efficient. Our philosophy is to build solid relationships by: •
Understanding your business;
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Supporting you with our industry knowledge; and
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Providing you with the solutions which meet your business needs.
What we offer Gambling is one of the key areas of practice for Ince, and in recent years the firm has established itself as one of the strongest names in the sector having retained its tier 1 ranking in the gambling law category for The Legal 500 (Legalease) EMEA 2021 edition. Our team consists of gambling solicitors qualified in the UK and Gibraltar, project managers and regulatory experts to ensure the quality and completeness of our service. We are internationally recognised for our expertise in all aspects of gambling law and regulation. We advise large corporates, owner-managed businesses and start-up ventures across the gambling industry. Our experience in gambling regulation and taxation in the UK, Gibraltar and abroad, means that we can offer you unrivalled knowledge of the latest developments, as well as the technological aspects of gambling products. Our dedicated gaming and betting specialists are on hand to support and service your needs. Our offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Greece and Cyprus also support our regulatory and compliance services with their dedicated lawyers, who closely work with local regulators. We can advise you on all aspects of gambling law, ranging from overseas based online gaming operators and gaming suppliers, to land-based casinos, betting shops, bingo clubs, amusement arcades, liquor licensed premises, private clubs and lotteries, prize competitions and draw.
“They are very professional and have been a pleasure to work with.” - Chambers and Partners
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Our services Compliance in Gibraltar and UK: •
Assisting with Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) compliance and regulatory reporting.
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Gambling and betting compliance audit.
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Training, review and maintenance policies and procedures.
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Regulatory, operational and AML advice including fully compliant AML risk assessments, and support with identity and source of funds verification.
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Licence reviews and enforcement.
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Back-office solutions including compliance due diligence reports on third parties and customers.
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Regulatory and criminal investigations, settlement strategy and representation.
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Licensed premises and clubs.
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Advice on wider consumer protection legislation.
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Advertising regulations and electronic marketing consent.
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Data protection compliance and application of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Applications in Gibraltar and UK: •
Gambling operating licence applications.
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Gambling personal management licence.
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Change of corporate control applications and licence variations.
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Land-based premises licence.
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dvice on all forms of gambling premises licences and A permits, including gambling entitlements in alcohollicensed premises and clubs.
Global commercialisation: •
Global regulatory and business case analysis.
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Target market selection.
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Corporate and tax structuring.
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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) transactional assistance.
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Global regulatory monitoring using the InceSight Platform, our digital information service (IS) delivering jurisdictional overviews with content provided by an array of over 30 international gaming lawyers.
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Deal structuring and commercial contracts.
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Intellectual property strategy, registration and maintenance.
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RegTech analysis and vendor selection.
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Banking and payment solution analysis and selection.
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InceSight InceSight is our new digital research assistant, created in collaboration with Amber Gaming. The platform will help you to understand and compare the benefits, risks and challenges when entering, expanding or exiting one or more gaming jurisdictions around the world. You can easily explore and navigate by jurisdiction or product using InceSight’s databases, which are filled with highly specialised and up to date legal and regulatory information. Our gaming and betting experts, as well as experts from many other jurisdictions around the world, contribute to the system - so you can trust InceSight’s data is verified and accurate. InceSight helps you analyse and evaluate products and markets quickly and without the need to employ a team of consultants and lawyers to do so. Recommendations are given through a traffic light system – be cautious, go or stop - to help you make highly informed decisions on the action you want to take. InceSight has all jurisdictions and products in one place, significantly cutting down on both time and cost in compiling comparable information from other sources. It has everything you need all in one place. Visit the InceSight website to find out more, or contact us to explore your options and for a free demonstration.
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They trust us... “Service-delivery has matched their technical expertise, dedicated, personable, timely and most importantly, commercially-focussed.” - William Hill
“They have the rare combination of both legal skill and relationship building which all their clients get to benefit from.” - Boylesports “A top partner that can perform and bring value to any company.” - Goldwin “The team is professional and is able to answer all of our questions.” - Blueprint
“They have assisted us in all legal aspects of our business since the initial license application process and continue to be a much trusted advisor. The team are readily accessible and always available. The personable, reliable, commercial and professional ethos of the firm is evident.” - Lottoland “We were dealing with people that fully understand not only law requirements but also our business and are able to provide more than legal services of outstanding quality.” - Enlabs “Ince provides us with specialist expert and timely advice, that is adeptly tailored to our business requirements.” - Alot Solutions
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Our UK office
Our Gibraltar office
Aldgate Tower 2 Leman Street London E1 8QN United Kingdom
Unit 6.20 World Trade Center 6 Bayside Road GX11 1AA Gibraltar T +350 200 68 450
T +44 (0) 20 7481 0010
Hamburg London Cardiff Bristol
Beijing
Gibraltar Shanghai Piraeus
Hong Kong Dubai Abu Dhabi
Limassol Singapore
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Our gaming and betting team
Andrew Cotton
Philip Somarakis
Alex Ktorides
Director of Betting and Gaming, London
Partner, Head of Regulatory Solutions, London
Head of Risk Management and Ethics, London
T +44 (0) 7759 1623 E AndrewCotton@incegd.com
T +44 (0) 20 7759 1364 E PhilipSomarakis@incegd.com
T +44 (0) 20 7759 1584 E AlexKtorides@incegd.com
Peter Howitt
Andrew Tait
William Tunstall-Prince
Consultant, Gibraltar
Associate, UK
T +44 (0) 7583 002878 E AndrewTait@incegd.com
T +44 (0) 7807 958311 E WilliamTunstall-Prince@incegd.com
Managing Partner, Gibraltar T +350 200 68450 E PeterHowitt@incegd.com
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