Probably the right answer.
It doesn't sound like a very confident claim.
But the laws of probability teach a hard lesson: predicting outcomes of complex systems is seldom easy and never certain.
That is particularly true when it comes to judgements about commercial and legal problems.
However, by applying experience, knowledge, attention to detail and hard work, we help our clients to get the key calls right on the difficult decisions.
Legal 500 2027Hall of FamerankingCarl Rohsler is a UK solicitor-advocate based in London, who has spent more than 30 years practising in the field of intellectual property and technology, and is well-known for his work as a leading lawyer in the gambling sector.
Throughout his career, he has worked in IP heavy sectors, providing strategic advice to IP rich companies, and some of the key players throughout the full spectrum of risk in the international gambling industry.
Services we provide include:
- Legal opinions on the legality of new products and approaches
- Whether a licence is needed (“regulatory perimeter advice”)
- Commercial arrangements and structuring
- Dealing with regulators
- Applications for licences
- Skill games, prize draws and social casinos
- International gambling software structuring
- Gambling syndicates - structure and tax
- IP protection and enforcement
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Affiliate arrangements
- Changes of control
- Financial products emulating gambling
Helping with complex problems, by finding better solutions.
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Occasional studies from the casebook of gambling, games, risk and regulation
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Betting syndicates | September 2026
More syndicate than sinning: what is a betting syndicate, and is it legal?Betting syndicates are legal, common and almost entirely undocumented in the legal literature. They are not businesses, but they can drift into becoming one. They are treated with suspicion by banks, and by almost no one else. This is the first of a short series of articles on how syndicates work, where the legal stress points lie and what can be done about them.
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Slot games | September 2026
The windmills of my mind: what is a slot game, and why does the law care what it looks like?Online slot games now carry their own stake limits and their own design rules. Which games are caught depends on a definition which looks at how a game is displayed, and says nothing about how it is played or what harm it may do. This article looks at that definition, and at the odd results it produces.
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Exempt lotteries | September 2026
Raffles, sweepstakes and tombolas: which small lotteries can you run without a licence?The raffle at a charity ball, the tombola at a church fete and the office Grand National sweepstake are all lotteries in law. Most can be run perfectly lawfully without a licence, but only within limits which the Gambling Act 2005 sets out in some detail. This is a short guide to where those limits lie.