Tom works with the Gambling team in drafting, negotiating, and advising on commercial agreements, such as sponsorship agreements, game development, sports data rights, content licensing, platform agreements, affiliate terms, white-label agreements and customer terms and conditions.

Tom also advises on gambling regulatory matters, notably in relation to advertising and marketing rules to ensure that gambling operators and their commercial partners act in a socially responsible manner.

Work highlights include:

• Drafting and negotiating service agreements with multiple US casinos for the development and provision of real-money and social gaming websites.

• Advising and negotiating sponsorship agreements on a number of sports-related properties, including title sponsorships, shirt sponsorship and betting partner arrangements.
• Negotiating numerous gaming and sports betting platform services agreements across multiple territories, including the UK, Malta, Gibraltar, Canada, the US and parts of Africa.
• Advising a premium operator of fantasy football products, including advising on marketing obligations, drafting game rules and preparing terms and conditions.
• Advising a multinational video games company on their social gaming strategy, including drafting legal opinions on the issuance of virtual currency and protections against secondary markets.
• Drafting standard Terms and Conditions and Promotional Terms for multiple different sectors and products.