Gaming and Sports – Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Gaming

We advise throughout the complete regulated panorama, together with on-line (iGaming), sports activities betting and wagering, and land-based and on line casino gaming, along with the public-sector initiatives that create new markets. We navigate complicated market entries and compliance issues throughout Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Québec and nationally. Osler additionally advises on the transactions that drive the business, from operator launches and provider registrations to mergers, acquisitions and private-equity funding.

Sports

Our sports activities work covers the business and regulatory issues that outline trendy sport, together with franchise, league and governing-body issues, sports-related licensing and business agreements, and the info and media rights that join leagues, knowledge suppliers and sportsbooks. We construction the high-stakes partnerships and content material agreements that gasoline business progress. Our expertise additionally consists of main sports activities infrastructure and event-related tasks. Osler represented the City of Toronto on procurement, challenge administration, design and development issues referring to the enlargement and renovation of BMO Field in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2026.

Who we serve

• Gaming and sports-betting operators (B2C), each land-based and on-line
• Gaming know-how and gear suppliers (B2B
• Financial establishments and lenders
• Private fairness and institutional traders
• First Nations and Indigenous gaming operators
• Governments, regulators and provincial gaming authorities
• Sports franchises, leagues and governing our bodies

We additionally help the expansion of Canadian sport by our professional bono work, together with with rising skilled and ladies’s soccer organizations.

Why Osler

Gaming and sports activities companies function in considered one of Canada’s most regulated and fastest-changing markets, the place the suitable authorized accomplice should perceive the entire panorama, not simply the matter in entrance of them. Osler brings a particular mixture of strengths to that work:

• Anticipatory regulatory perception: We preserve our purchasers forward of the curve, permitting them to anticipate the place regulation is heading slightly than react to it.
• Seamless interdisciplinary execution: We’re in a position to convey our agency’s full platform to bear, connecting gaming specialists with top-tier practitioners throughout licensing, financing, privateness, promoting, tax, know-how and disputes.
• Integrated transactional and regulatory methods: Transactions are formed by an professional understanding of each the business and the regulatory realities.
• Recognized market chief: Our workforce is acknowledged by Chambers and Partners as having main practices within the core classes that outline this business together with Gaming & Licensing, Privacy & Data Protection, Technology, Advertising & Marketing, Intellectual Property and Emerging and Startups & Emerging Companies.