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IAGA PRESIDENT HARPER KO was most recently Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary for Penn National Gaming where she was responsible for all legal matters for Penn, including commercial transactions, litigation matters, corporate governance and securities law and gaming regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Penn, Harper was the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer – General Counsel and Secretary of Everi Holdings, Inc., where she helped guide the former Global Cash Access through its ongoing transition to a full-service casino gaming equipment and payment solutions provider. Direct: +1.702.202.7305 |
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IAGA VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM DOWNEY is Co-chair of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck's Gaming group, Bill Downey has built a reputation as one of the most respected attorneys in the gaming industry. With more than 25 years of experience in the Atlantic City and Pennsylvania markets, Bill has been counseling mid-Atlantic casinos and other participants in the casino and hospitality industries on the regulatory, corporate and real estate aspects of their ventures. He has extensive experience in the prosecution of license applications before regulatory bodies, operational issues and financing transactions. His unique combination of experience in these areas is beneficial as European companies look to expand and partner with companies in the U.S. Specifically, Bill’s practice includes guiding clients through business transactions, including regulation, acquisitions and dispositions, real estate, corporate and real estate finance, venture structure and entity formation and governance. Shareholder, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck |
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IAGA SECRETARY SANTIAGO ASENSI is Managing Partner of Asensi Abogados, a gaming and gambling law firm with offices in Spain and Colombia. Asensi provides legal advice to a large number of bookmakers, poker, casino, bingo and skill games operators, software providers, slot suppliers with interests located in Spain and Latin America as well as to gaming jurisdictions. Asensi Abogados was the official advisor of Coljuegos (the Colombian regulator) in the development of the first regulation for online gambling in Latin America. Managing Partner, Asensi Abogados |
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IAGA TREASURER JEREMY P. KLEIMAN serves on Saiber's Executive Committee and heads its Gaming Law Practice Group. Jeremy focuses his practice on gaming, regulatory and business law, representing casino operators, gaming equipment suppliers, technology providers and financial institutions involved in the gaming and lottery industries. He specializes in gaming-related corporate, regulatory, licensing and compliance matters, with an emphasis on the online and mobile gaming industry. Member, Saiber |
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IAGA ASSISTANT TREASURER BAHAR ALAEDDINI is a Partner with Harris Hagan in London. Specialising in all aspects of online and land-based gambling law, Bahar is ranked in the UK and global legal directories and recognised “at the top of her profession”. She advises many of the world’s largest online and land-based gambling businesses (B2C and B2B), as well as many start-ups, investors and leading law firms. Bahar has extensive gambling law, regulatory and licensing experience having advised major international clients on matters ranging from license applications, compliance investigations and license reviews to cross-border M&A transactions, investor disclosure and complex group restructuring. She also acts as the Contributing Editor of global publications on gambling law for Chambers, The Legal 500 and Thomson Reuters Practical Law. Partner, Harris Hagan |
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IAGA GENERAL COUNSEL EDWARD R. WINKOFSKY is Chair of the Greenberg Traurig Gaming Practice and focuses his practice on gaming regulatory compliance, licensure, and internal investigations. He also advises clients on transactional and general corporate matters. Since joining the firm in 2010, Ed has served as regulatory counsel to licensed gaming industry suppliers and operators, horse tracks, video gaming and on-line providers, lottery providers, tribal licensees, and social gaming operators and investors. Chair - Gaming Practices and Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig |
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IAGA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR KIRSTEN CLARK has over 20 years global gaming industry experience. Prior to joining IAGA as Executive Director, she was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer-Asia, for Gaming Partners International (Formerly NASDAQ: GPIC, now part of Angel Group) were she was instrumental in expanding the company’s day-to-day business operations throughout Asia and the pacific rim while simultaneously overseeing GPI’s global marketing and product management divisions. Her gaming industry experience also includes extensive strategic marketing, public relations and events management experience for Shuffle Master, Inc. (previously NASDAQ: SHFL, now part of Light and Wonder) where she served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for several years, working directly with executive management on numerous global acquisitions and shaped the company’s corporate and strategic messages across all channels and stakeholders. P.O. Box 92495 • Henderson, NV 89009 |