John Hagan
Managing Partner John co-founded Harris Hagan with Julian Harris in May 2004. Specialising in all aspects of online and land-based gambling law, and with over 20 years’ of gambling law experience, John is recognised as a leading gambling lawyer by operators, suppliers and regulators throughout the world. He 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. John has extensive gambling legal, regulatory and licensing experience advising on legal classification, non-remote and remote operating licence applications, casino competitions and 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. He 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. John is a regular conference speaker and contributor to industry and specialist legal publications. · Harris Hagan
About
John Hagan is Managing Partner and co‑founder of Harris Hagan (May 2004) and is recognised as a leading gambling lawyer with over 20 years' gambling law experience. He advises major land‑based and online (B2C and B2B) gambling operators, suppliers, regulators, start‑ups and investors on licensing, regulatory, compliance, transactions and complex group restructuring, and is a regular conference speaker and industry contributor.
Practice areas
Office
Expertise
Education
- Royal Belfast Academical Institution
- University College Dublin — BCL (1989)
Admissions
- Trained and qualified at Wedlake Bell (1993)