Harris Hagan

Gambling and Leisure.

Partner

Specialising in all aspects of online and land-based gambling law, Bahar is recognised as a rising star.  She 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.  Bahar 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.

Bahar is a regular conference speaker and contributor to industry and specialist legal publications.  She is also co-editor of Chambers Global Practice Guide to Gambling and Thomson Reuters Practical Law Global Guide to Gaming Law and co-author of the UK chapter and author of the Alderney chapter of the same publications.

Bahar is recognised by The Legal 500 as “a rising star, exceptional and creative and of “sharp intellect and a practical approach to advice”.

Persian.

General Counsel of International Association of Gaming Advisors, Global Gaming Women, The City of London Solicitors' Company.

King's College London, 2007.

Leisure interests include intrepid travelling, walking her dog, scuba-diving, gardening and anything to do with Sicily.