Hilary Stewart-Jones is a partner in the firm's London office and part of the Intellectual Property and Technology Group. She focuses solely on gambling related issues. Having spent five years holding the position as in house head of the gambling division at Ladbrokes, she recognised the need when coming back into private practice in 2000, of creating a legal service to support all the needs of gambling clients from regulatory issues, general commercial and corporate support (including fund raising) to structural and tax planning, and to provide this on a multi-jurisdictional basis.

She has played a role in most of the online sector floats/acquisitions since 2000, but continues to advise bricks and mortar businesses from tracks to casinos. She has also written legislation and regulations for offshore governments as well as drawing up industry codes of practice.

Chambers in 2010 referred to her as "a first-class lawyer who has gaming in her blood". She is the only practitioner to be awarded a star in the gambling category (denoting exceptional recommendations in the sector).
She joined DLA Piper LLP in September 2011 with her two colleagues (Stephen Ketteley and Sue Dawson, both of whom work exclusively in the sector too) with the express desire to leverage the firm's great international depth and reach so as to better serve client's needs.

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