Lucy Paterson

Lucy Paterson is a Senior Associate at Bird & Bird in London. Her primary practice area is Consumer Protection Law, with extensive experience in the gaming and gambling sector.

She supports a wide range of clients, from start-ups to major listed gambling operators, in relation to the issues they face in today's challenging and fast-paced regulatory environment. She has advised on some of the most high-profile enforcement cases carried out by the Gambling Commission in recent years and on a number of cross-border transactions involving some of the most well-known listed gambling operators in the world.

She joined Bird & Bird in August 2022 from a specialist gambling regulatory law firm. Her practice covers all aspects of British gambling regulatory law.

She has advised extensively on the legal classification of gaming and gambling products and regularly advises clients on the process for obtaining a gambling licence in Great Britain — whether start-up businesses looking to obtain their first licence or established operators looking to expand their product offering. She also offers practical advice on how to structure a product that falls outside British gambling regulation and, for licensed clients, provides ongoing compliance advice on any aspect of being regulated by the Gambling Commission.

As part of Bird & Bird's international gambling group, she is able to co-ordinate multi-jurisdictional gambling regulatory advice from across the firm's international offices.