Congratulations to C.J. Fisher, Fox’s Gaming Department Co-Chair, who was named a Dealmaker of the Year Finalist as part of the New Jersey Law Journal’s 2024 New Jersey Legal Awards program.
Presented annually, the Dealmaker of the Year award honors New Jersey’s “exceptional transactional lawyers who achieved excellence” in the past year.
Fisher has been at the forefront of the expansion of legalized and regulated sports betting, iGaming and lottery courier services in the United States, regularly representing and advising industry stakeholders in jurisdictions across the country.
This past year, he represented Jackpot.com in expanding their lottery courier operations to New Jersey, enabling users in the Garden State to order official state lottery tickets on their mobile phone, tablet or desktop.
“This was not only satisfying for my work and my client, but also because the continued expansion of the industry in my home state significantly benefits the state and lottery consumers in the state,” he told the New Jersey Law Journal.
Fisher has handled gaming licensing, compliance and regulatory matters in jurisdictions across the United States, and he represents a range of gaming industry clients in both the brick-and-mortar and internet/mobile spaces in all aspects of gaming law.
In the past year, he also served as lead gaming regulatory counsel to Sports IQ Analytics in its acquisition by DraftKings and represented NYRA Bets in its deal to become the Managing Vendor of New Jersey’s online and mobile pari-mutuel account wagering system for horse racing, noting to the New Jersey Law Journal that the transaction will “significantly expand the online pari-mutuel horse wagering market in the state.”
“There has been tremendous growth in the online sports betting and iGaming markets,” he commented when asked how the post-pandemic economy has affected his practice. “The pandemic and the new normal that it created accelerated that growth significantly as more people started to bet from home or on the go (first out of necessity, and more recently, out of convenience).”
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