Profile
Bahar Alaeddini
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.
In her spare time, Bahar enjoys travelling, walking her dog (Pippa), gardening and anything to do with Sicily.
King’s College London, 2007
Call to the Bar (The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple), 2008
Law Society of England & Wales, 2012
Band 2, Chambers UK 2020
Up and Coming, Chambers Global 2020
Leading Individual, The Legal 500 2020
“Exceptional and creative” The Legal 500 2020
“She is very pragmatic and straightforward. She is very knowledgeable, provides advice which is clear and helpful, and is very approachable.” Chambers UK 2020
“Considered “an excellent gaming lawyer,” peers describe her as “very commercial, very straightforward – she makes things understandable.”” Chambers Global 2020
“She has an uncanny intuition for all things related to gambling commissions, as well as being very technical and straightforward with a commercial bent.” Chambers UK 2019
“Sharp intellect and a practical approach to advice” The Legal 500 2019
“She is focused and hard working, and is able to take a practical approach to complex regulatory issues.” Chambers UK 2018
“A rising star” The Legal 500 2017
International Association of Gaming Advisors (Programme Committee, 2019-2020)
Global Gaming Women
The City of London Solicitors’ Company
Joint editor, Chambers Global Practice Guide to Gambling
Co-author, UK chapter, Chambers Global Practice Guide to Gambling
Author, Alderney chapter, Chambers Global Practice Guide to Gambling
Joint editor, Thomson Reuters Practical Law Global Guide to Gaming Law
Co-author, UK chapter, Thomson Reuters Practical Law Global Guide to Gaming Law
Author of Alderney chapter, Thomson Reuters Practical Law Global Guide to Gaming Law