Morden C. Lazarus Gaming Lawyer of the Year Canada

Firm Profile

Lazarus Charbonneau, based out of Montreal, Quebec (Canada) has been a fixture of the Canadian legal community for over forty years, more recently serving the gaming industry, which includes opinions on the legalities of gaming ventures, managing all aspects of commercial

transactions, drafting and negotiation of contracts, litigating disputes Individual Profile As the Senior Attorney with Lazarus

Charbonneau, Cookie is the only Canadian lawyer to have been appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Association of Gaming Attorneys (IAGA), based in Las Vegas since September 1993. In November 2001, Cookie was appointed as General Counsel of IAGA and served as their President from 2004 to 2005. He has also served as a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL) and in September of 2004, was appointed Chair of the Gaming Law Committee of the American Bar Association.

Throughout his practice, Cookie has written extensively on the subject of gaming law. He is a frequent speaker at trade shows and conferences, and represents the interests of many of the leading gaming operators in both online and land-based gaming sectors. More recently, Cookie has been called upon by some of the industry’s leading CEO’s to mediate disputes at the highest level, while at all times material, maintaining the complete and utmost confidence and confidentiality of all parties involved in the process.

Notable Legal Work

Lazarus Charbonneau is committed to continually contribute to industry-related literature and discourse. For instance, in 2005, Cookie and his team drafted an article entitled “A compelling case for the Mohawk of Kahnawake to conduct, facilitate and regulate all forms of gambling on its lands and for the creation of a framework for Aboriginal gaming in Canada” for the Kahnwake Gaming Commission (“KGC”). In this piece, Cookie and his team articulated arguments favoring the constitutionally protected Aboriginal Right to regulate and facilitate gaming maintained by the Mohawks of Kahnawake, to such an extent that the KGC continues to rely on it as their legal source and entitlement permitting them to legally continue operating the largest hosting facility in the world for online gaming.

In January of 2010, the Quebec government announced their intentions of entering the mature industry of online gaming. In an article

entitled “Online Provincial Gambling Operators – Philosophically Sound, Mechanically Flawed”, Cookie and his team expressed concern that instead of competing against private companies with endless spending budgets, bottomless customer buckets and over a decade of experience, Canadian provincial governments, including Quebec, would be well advised to leave online gaming to private enterprises and grant gaming licenses to online operators, thus regulating the online gaming activity that can in turn create greater revenue for its gaming jurisdiction.

More recently, Cookie and his team shed light on the legal impact of the internet’s latest online entertainment offering in Canada, Online Penny Auctions, in their article entitled “Our 2 cents about Penny Auctions, which will be published in the November 2013 edition of Gaming Law Review and Economics.

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2013

before the courts and ensuring compliance within various regulated jurisdictions where its online (“i-gaming”) and conventional (“land-based”) gaming clients are licensed.

Lazarus Charbonneau thrives to be

“internationally recognized as the pre-eminent gaming law firm in Canada” as described by

GamblingCompliance.com, due largely in part to Morden “Cookie” Lazarus and his team of gaming Attorneys, Edwin D. Monzon and Cory R. Levi, both of whom are widely known and highly regarded for their exceptional skills and experience in assisting their clients to achieve their ultimate goals.

Areas of Expertise

Lazarus Charbonneau has and continues to serve the interests of gaming entities and

professionals from Canada, the United States, Latin America, Malta, the Isle of Man and South Korea, to name a few. Despite the firm’s international status, Lazarus Charbonneau manages to preserve tight relationships with all of its clients, primarily because of Cookie’s resilient dedication to all of the firm’s clients, whether big or small. It is this guiding philosophy that has formed the fabric and culture of Lazarus Charbonneau.

Contact

Morden C. Lazarus Lazarus Charbonneau 759 Square Victoria, Suite 200 Montreal, Quebec (Canada) H2Y 2J7

Tel: (514) 289-8600 Fax: (514) 289-8609 Email: cookie@lazaruscharbonneau.com Web: www.lazaruscharbonneau.com

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