The breakneck pace of rule changes, the exponential growth of sports betting and the rapid evolution of prediction markets create a host of compliance and legal considerations for stakeholders across professional and collegiate sports.
Protect the integrity of your organization while navigating the rapidly evolving worlds of sports betting, prediction markets, gaming regulation, and NIL developments.
As regulatory scrutiny increases and integrity risks continue to emerge, sports organizations, gaming operators and educational institutions face increasingly complex compliance, governance and enforcement challenges. Whether you are responding to an investigation, assessing emerging regulatory developments or strengthening integrity controls, you need practical guidance to manage risk and make informed decisions. Our team brings together former federal prosecutors, an NCAA enforcement professional and lawyers who have served in senior government and in-house roles, including at the CFTC, the White House and within the intelligence community, as well as in general counsel positions. This combination gives us both a regulator-facing and in-house perspective on risk, governance and decision-making.
Professional sports leagues, teams, coaches, unions, agents and athletes must navigate league rules, labor and employment requirements, and evolving federal and state regulatory frameworks. Universities, conferences, athletics administrators and student-athletes face similarly complex challenges as they evaluate NCAA regulations, conference requirements, institutional policies and NIL arrangements.
More often than not, these issues are interconnected. Integrity concerns increasingly intersect with cybersecurity, data governance, artificial intelligence, government investigations, cross-border regulation and reputational risk. Our multidisciplinary team helps clients navigate these interconnected challenges, strengthen compliance programs and respond effectively to regulatory scrutiny and enforcement activity.
Combining regulatory insight with extensive private-sector experience, we advise professional sports organizations, gaming and betting operators, and universities and collegiate athletics programs on the legal, regulatory and operational issues shaping today's sports and gaming ecosystem.
Our team advises clients on integrity-related risks, regulatory compliance and data governance matters across jurisdictions. We help organizations establish effective oversight, investigate potential concerns, assess vulnerabilities and implement strategies that support long-term compliance and operational success.
We support clients across the full lifecycle of integrity-related matters, including:
- Proactive risk mitigation: We design and implement policies, controls and governance frameworks, supported by tailored training, process development and data mapping.
- Regulatory compliance: We advise participants across the sports betting and prediction markets ecosystems on U.S. regulatory frameworks and emerging federal, state and cross-border considerations.
- Investigations and response: We manage internal investigations involving integrity, compliance, financial conduct and data-related risks while assessing potential regulatory and enforcement-facing considerations.
- Enforcement and disputes: We represent clients in matters involving regulators and enforcement authorities, including the Department of Justice, state attorneys general, gaming regulators, market regulators, law enforcement, congressional committees and NCAA enforcement bodies.
We understand how regulators analyze enforcement decisions and how expectations evolve across jurisdictions. Our integrated, multidisciplinary approach spanning sports integrity, gaming regulation, prediction markets, white collar defense and congressional investigations enables clients to navigate high-stakes situations, reduce uncertainty and protect both their operations and reputation in an increasingly complex and highly scrutinized environment.
- Representing an NCAA Division I institution in connection with a federal government inquiry into its athletics department.
- Working with a premier professional sports league on issues at the heart of sports integrity, including the safeguarding of sensitive information, mitigating data misuse risks, and reinforcing trust in league operations and decision-making.
- Representing an NFL franchise in sports betting compliance and related matters.
- Developing a full spectrum of policies and procedures for an expanding international casino operator and advising on compliance issues, including regarding sports betting.
- Representing a major Daily Fantasy Operator in connection with regulatory matters in various states.
- Representing many global social casino operators with compliance and commercial projects in several states.
- Advising several Division I institutions in sponsorship and commercial relationships with various sports betting operators.
- Representing a sports betting technology and services company in navigating civil litigation and other commercial disputes.
- Advising a collegiate sports organization on enterprise-wide data privacy compliance, including policy development, staff and stakeholder training, and enhancements to internal governance.
- Advising several Division I institutions on compliance with NCAA rules, including in connection with new NIL legislation, institutional NIL agreements with student-athletes, and agreements with multimedia rights and apparel partners.
- Guiding a large public institution on restructuring its athletics governance structure to address new risks and opportunities.
- Advising on NIL-related structures and risks in connection with a top-tier college basketball coach, helping identify compliance considerations, governance guardrails, and potential reputational and investigative risks.