Hilary Stewart-Jones

Practice Areas

She advises many of the world’s largest land-based and online gambling businesses, as well as start-ups, investors and international law firms. Hilary has extensive gambling legal, regulatory and licensing experience advising on legal classification, licence applications, change of corporate control applications and complex group restructuring. She also has extensive compliance and enforcement experience advising on compliance and reporting requirements, compliance assessments, regulatory investigations, corporate evaluations, operating and personal licence reviews, and developing associated remedial compliance programmes and action plans.

Hilary is recognised by Chambers UK as “refreshingly straightforward, pragmatic and extremely knowledgeable in her field.”

Career

St Cyres, Queen Mary College (LLB) Kings, UCL, LSE and Queen Mary College (LLM).

Hilary joined Harris Hagan in May 2018 from DLA Piper where she was co-head of the gambling practice and partner from September 2011 to 2013 when she became a consultant. Worked both in-house and in private practice for the gambling and leisure industry since 1995, returning to private practice in 2000 as a Partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP.

Professional Memberships

International Masters of Gaming Law. International Association of Gaming Advisors.

Publications

Contributing editor to ICLG to Gambling; contributor to Smith and Monkcom: The Law of Gambling (Fourth Edition)

Personal

Enjoys reading, theatre and ballet.