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Cains‘ gambling and e-gaming team acts on the largest and most complex gambling transaction in the market, including on multi-jurisdictional restructuring and secured lending matters. The team also advises extensively on regulatory matters for the largest gambling companies on the island. Scott Leonard-Morgan handles complex corporate, financing, restructuring and commercial transactions within the gambling sector with particular expertise in the technology, gaming and payment services sectors. Tristan Head regularly advises on regulatory matters related to financial services, while Matthew Wilkinson provides cross-border regulatory compliance advice in addition to a wide range of corporate and commercial work. Kirsten Porter is another key name, handling a number of significant deals involving M&A and restructurings in the gambling sector.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘They take an extremely collaborative approach to work and feel like an extension of our deal / regulatory teams, they are also one of a very small number of firms that truly understands the local gambling industry.’

  • ‘Scott Leonard-Morgan is always very responsive and always so easy to deal with. He is sensible on fees, delivering good value and trying to ensure the client always gets an end result they are happy with. Scott understands the way our clients work, which is invaluable.’

Key clients

  • The Stars Group
  • Flutter Entertainment PLC
  • Gamesys Group PLC
  • Galaxy Gaming Inc
  • Paddy Power

Work highlights

  • Advising on amendments to a term loan facility made to Galaxy Gaming Inc involving Galaxy’s wholly owned Isle of Man subsidiary Progressive Games Partners LLC. Galaxy Gaming.

Lawyers

Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Kirsten Porter (née Middleton)
Kirsten is a Senior Associate within our Corporate and Commercial practice, having joined in early 2019. Kirsten qualified as a Manx Advocate in 2016 and is a Commissioner for Oaths. She has more than 8 years’ experience advising on broad range of multi-jurisdictional corporate, commercial and regulatory work including corporate acquisitions and sales, banking and finance transactions and shipping and insolvency matters. From a regulatory perspective, Kirsten has significant experience advising clients on their legal obligations under financial services legislation and anti-money laundering legislation. Kirsten also specialises in employment law. As a key member of our Employment team, she regularly advises both employers and employees in contentious and non-contentious matters, including contracts of employments, policies and procedures, redundancy and office closures, share incentive schemes, immigration, discrimination claims and settlement agreements.  Her clients include global and local corporate companies within various sectors, including banking, insurance, e-gaming, telecommunications and transport. Kirsten has been recognised as having “excellent client relationship skills and able to easily and consistently deliver high quality work to her clients in a timely manner.” Clients describe Kirsten as “responsive, concise and commercial minded” with another client remarking that she was “prompt in providing thorough and easily comprehensible responses.  The work was done within the fee cap agreed as the start of the matter.”

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Scott Leonard-Morgan

Other key lawyers

Tristan Head, Matthew Wilkinson, Kirsten Porter