Hilary Stewart-Jones

Gambling and Leisure.

Consultant

Hilary is a consultant and advises many of the world’s largest land-based and online gambling businesses (B2C and B2B), as well as many start-ups, investors and leading law firms.  Hilary has extensive gambling legal, regulatory and licensing experience advising on legal classification, non-remote and remote operating licence applications, premises licensing, personal applications, change of corporate control applications, transaction due diligence, corporate investments and transactions, complex group restructuring and the rationalisation of group licences.  She also has extensive compliance and enforcement experience advising on general compliance and reporting requirements, compliance assessments, regulatory investigations, corporate evaluations, operating and personal licence reviews, and developing associated remedial compliance programmes and action plans.

Hilary is a frequent conference speaker and contributor to industry publications; she is a contributing editor to the ICLG to Gambling since 2014, and contributor to Smith and Monkcom: The Law of Gambling (Fourth Edition).  She has also drafted gambling legislation (secondary and primary) for the Isle of Man and Curacao.

Hilary is recognised by The Legal 500 as “probably the most predominant lawyer in the gambling and i-gaming space.”  Another source adds: “She cares deeply and will fight hard for her clients.” 

Queen Mary College, 1982. Kings, UCL, LSE and Queen Mary College (LLM)