Our Mission

The legal battles fought in recent years before the European Court of Justice by a few brave and determined operators against national monopolies to claim the right to freely offer their gaming services across the EU regrettably did not result in the abolition of said monopolies, nor did they otherwise trigger an EU-wide harmonisation of gaming legislation. The founders and partners of gaminglaw.eu strongly believe that the next challenge for the gaming industry in Europe is to tackle and drive the legal and regulatory changes to be introduced by the Commission - and eventually the national governments - to ensure, in a realistic and pragmatic way, that any international gaming operator may actually conduct business across Europe without too many administrative barriers and hurdles, though still under fair competition-friendly and reasonable local licensing regimes. This goal can, in our view, be achieved only through coordinated, consistent and continuous pressure on all authorities concerned (in Brussels and elsewhere), made up of a strategic blend of efforts in terms of information, dissemination, education, consultation, political lobbying and, if required, fresh legal action. With all this in mind, and to be able to cope with this major challenge, the founders and partners of gaminglaw.eu have now resolved to organise themselves in the form of a pan-European group of firms, fully-integrated and highly specialised in the provision of legal and non-legal services to the international gaming industry but also well equipped to interact with those central or regional authorities that may wish to bridge the communication and relations gap that too often in the past has tarnished their dealings with the operators.

• ULYS LawFirm
• Sinisi Ceschini Mancini
• Hambach & Hambach
• Van Mens & Wisselink

ULYS

The integration of the four departments makes it possible to provide a global solution, within the niche activity, at the geographical level (Paris and Brussels) as well as at the intellectual level (inter-department co-operation).

In addition, ULYS is a member of the international network Eurojuris that links 700 firms in Europe and in the world, as well as the network "International Masters of Gaming Law". Ulys is also member of the Information Technology Law Europe ULYS is characterised by its constant concern of Total Quality:

1. The organisational quality, on one hand, which is characterised by the ISO 9001 : 2000 : certification of ULYS : listening to the customer, respect of the deadlines, use of technologies to improve the professional practice and the contact with the client, organization and rigour in the management of the firm and the client’s files. are some of the virtues in which we believe.
2. The intellectual quality, on the other hand, which is characterised by the specialisation of the activities and the unanimous recognition of all the actors of the legal world. The lawyers of ULYS thus publish regularly in prestigious law reviews; they frequently participate in well-reputed conferences as speakers; several of them teach in Law Schools.

ULYS seeks to be synonymous with quality and devotion; a commitment shared by all its lawyers, associates and administrative staff.

During the ceremony of the Legal Awards 2006, ULYS was elected:« Best Technology, Media & Telecom Lawfirm ». In addition, ULYS was nominated as «Best Intellectual Property Lawfirm ».

Two years after the ISO 9001 certification, this new achievement confirms the concern of Total Quality which inspires the whole ULYS team.

Contact : Thibault Verbiest

Hambach & Hambach

We have consistently been regarded as a leading German law firm in the gaming sector, providing expert advice on (online) gaming, (online) skill games and (online) entertainment games. One of the key factors of the service provided by Hambach & Hambach is the depth of experience and level of expertise it can bring to bear for the benefit of clients.

We cooperate with specialised firms from around the world, particularly those in Western and Eastern Europe and in the United States. This helps us in our quest to provide an international and comprehensive legal service.

In the area of gaming law, we have formed legal alliances with the Belgian-French firm, Ulys, the Dutch firm, Van Mens & Wisselink and the Italian firm, Sinisi Ceschini, Mancini & Partners

Central to the international and specialised focus of our law firm is our membership of national as well as global networks, such as the International Masters of Gaming Law and the International Association of Gaming Attorneys.

Our clients include:

• Global leaders in online sports betting, online casinos / poker and casual game services
• German and international TV, print and online media providers
• Marketing and event agents
• German and international firms from the E-commerce sector (including providers of medical services)
• Certifiers of online-services (TÜV Rheinland Secure IT GmbH)

Contact : Wulf Hambach

Sinisi Ceschini Mancini

The Sports, Entertainment & Gaming department headed by Quirino Mancini (qmancini@scm-partners.it) advises and acts on behalf of many foreign-based operators and bookmakers engaged in the terrestrial and/or online exploitation of the local gaming market. The services provided by the SE&G department ever more often entail a one-stop-shop approach whereby foreign clients completely new to the peculiarities and different business rules and procedures featured by the Italian gaming concession regime receive full-fledged assistance by Mancini and his team.

Each key department at Sinisi Ceschini Mancini is typically staffed with working team units (partner, senior associate, junior associate and paralegal) so as to be in a position to offer its foreign clients a wide and customised range of legal, administrative (corporate bookkeeping) and accounting services at the most time/cost effective ratio.

All lawyers and personnel of the firm are fluent in English and many speak a second foreign language too.

An in-house chartered accountant is also available.

A list of the most representative clients can be made available upon request and subject to any applicable privacy law restrictions.

Contact: info@scm-partners.it

Van Mens & Wisselink (“VMW”)