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

Martin Lycka , Legal Counsel , The Betfair Group , United Kingdom

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.

Martin Lycka, LL.M., LL.B., solicitor, is a Legal Counsel at Betfair. Martin has worked with Betfair since September 2009; focusing on EU law, competition law, and regulatory and licensing issues. He previously worked with Clariant SA, Aliachem a.s., the

The Betfair Group of companies is one of the leading online gambling companies, which has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2010; it is headquartered in London with several other offices in Europe and beyond. The Betfair Group is currently li