Bahar Alaeddini
Partner - Harris Hagan UK
Before joining Harris Hagan in April 2012, Bahar worked for two years in the fitness to practise department of the Health and Care Professions Council in London, investigating and prosecuting disciplinary cases against health professionals. She also worked on the Turks and Caicos Islands public inquiry with the Rt Hon Sir Robin Auld, investigating allegations of government corruption, and taught criminology and human rights to undergraduate law students.
Specialising in all aspects of online and land-based gambling law, Bahar is recognised as a rising star. She advises many of the world’s largest land-based and online gambling businesses (B2C and B2B), as well as many start-ups, investors and leading law firms. Bahar has extensive gambling legal, regulatory and licensing experience advising on legal classification, non-remote and remote operating licence applications, premises licensing, personal applications, change of corporate control applications, transaction due diligence, corporate investments and transactions, complex group restructuring and the rationalisation of group licences. She also has extensive compliance and enforcement experience advising on general compliance and reporting requirements, compliance assessments, regulatory investigations, corporate evaluations, operating and personal licence reviews, and developing associated remedial compliance programmes and action plans.
