About

Under the stewardship of group general counsel and company secretary Edward Traynor since April 2015, the Paddy Power Betfair legal team has had a major impact on the successes of the overall company and its current status as one of the most successful and prominent betting companies in Europe and further afield. The company has undergone a significant expansion recently, with an increasing focus allocated to the United States in the wake of new legislation more favourable to bookmaking companies being passed there. Perhaps most prominently, in May 2018 Paddy Power Betfair announced an intention to acquire New York City-based bookmaker FanDuel in a multimillion-dollar deal; this transaction giving the company’s legal team an opportunity to showcase its cross-border transactional abilities.