Those In-house Lawyers That Wear Multiple Hats in the Land of Online Gambling …

Martin Lycka , Legal Counsel , The Betfair Group , UK

Every month the author of this article gives the new souls who have joined his company an induction presentation on the in-house legal and regulatory affairs teams – the presentation normally starts by illustrating the differences between the regulatory position online gambling operators faced some ten or five years ago (living a relative life of riley in the sense of having a one-size-fits-all offer on a. com site) and the current position, which is best described as a regulatory patchwork that requires careful and very diligent planning and implementation of localised regulatory and legal solutions on the likes of. es or. ro domains.