Regulatory scrutiny is rising across NSW’s gaming and wagering sectors. Is your advice ready? Explore the AML/CTF weaknesses, online gambling and privacy developments, governance failures and regulatory expectations shaping clubs and licensed venues in 2027. Featuring direct insight from Liquor & Gaming NSW, this focused legal CPD webinar will help venues and legal advisors identify emerging risks, strengthen client compliance and give practical advice that stands up when regulators come knocking.

Presenters

Michael Anderson, CEO & Legal Director, Elite Legal
Michael is the CEO & Legal Director of Elite Legal - Commercial Lawyers and Advisers which is a commercial law and advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia. Michael was named Australian Corporate Lawyer of the Year in 2009-10. Michael has over 18 years commercial law and business experience across a variety of industries including industrial, retail, entertainment, gaming and hospitality. Michael provides quality corporate and commercial law services to a broad range of local and overseas clients. In addition to this Elite Legal also recruits, manages and provides low cost overseas lawyers who remotely provide cost effective legal support for law firms and corporates. Michael has previously been the General Counsel for an ASX100 Company and has worked for companies including BOC, David Jones, Star City, TABCORP, Echo Entertainment Group and Mounties Group. Michael has worked extensively across Asia and the South Pacific, including China, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Vanuatu, Australia and New Zealand and has extensive practical business experience. Michael's clients particularly instruct him for his practical commercial advice, his ability to turn the legally complex into the commercially simple, his commercial negotiation skills, his ability to identify relevant commercial issues and his ability to close deals.

Dimitri Argeres, Executive Director, Regulatory Operations, Liquor & Gaming NSW
Dimitri Argeres is the Director of Compliance at Liquor & Gaming NSW, with responsibility for the agency’s front-line inspectorate, enforcement, assurance and integrity and complaint assessment functions. Most recently this has included coordinating the agency’s enforcement approach to COVID-19 safety compliance. In previous roles, Dimitri has been responsible for managing Liquor & Gaming NSW’s investigative and complaint handling, triage and assessment functions. Prior to this, Dimitri coordinated operational deployments of inspectors across NSW and coordinated administrative sanctions and enforcement remedies, including the NSW Government’s ‘Three Strikes’ scheme for licensed premises and the ‘Declared Premises Scheme’ for violent venues. Dimitri has previously held regulatory or investigative roles at the Australian Communications & Media Authority, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission and the Australian Taxation Office.

Andrew Campbell, Partner, Hicksons, Hunt & Hunt, Holman Webb
Andrew is a partner in the firm’s litigation team, and our New South Wales Pro Bono Partner. Andrew predominantly acts for the firm’s long-standing government clients in regulatory prosecutions and administrative law matters. He regularly appears without counsel in prosecutions and administrative review hearings in the Local Court, NCAT, and the District and Supreme Courts of NSW, and has instructed counsel on appeals to the Courts of Appeal and Criminal Appeal. With a special interest in large and complex prosecution matters, Andrew has successfully conducted several major high-profile prosecutions including Road Transport, Fisheries, Work Health and Safety, Animal Cruelty and Environmental offences. He has also been involved in preparation of enforcement and prosecution guidelines for several NSW Government agencies and has conducted training for their compliance staff. Andrew also acts for private clients who have been charged with criminal offences, who wish to appeal administrative decisions, and in civil disputes.

Jamie Nettleton, Partner, Addisons
Jamie Nettleton heads the gambling law practice of Addisons. Both Australian and international businesses rely on Jamie’s expertise to advise on all aspects of gambling operations, including the potential application of gambling law to innovative products and concepts, as well as their investments in gambling businesses. It is Jamie’s global reputation that sees him sought after to advise gaming machine manufacturers, wagering operators, casinos, social media, online gambling and other gambling and gaming service providers. Jamie’s advice includes licensing, regulatory and compliance issues, sports and racing integrity, consumer, advertising and privacy law issues, and more generally, the potential application of gambling law to. Jamie’s advice to international gambling operators setting up business in Australia extends to preparation of prospectuses. Jamie works closely with these clients in developing their Australian business strategies, particularly in connection with new technologies. Jamie’s position at the forefront of gambling law saw Jamie elected as President of the International Masters of Gaming Law for 2018 and 2019, and his role as a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne as a lecturer in Gambling and the Law. He has also been ranked as a leading gambling lawyer by Chambers Global every year since 2008.

Jak Yasuda, Solicitor, Addisons
Jak Yasuda is an Australian solicitor specializing in gambling regulation, media law, and intellectual property (IP). He currently practices at the commercial law firm Addisons in Sydney, New South Wales.