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Garron Whitesman is recognised internationally as a leading lawyer in the gambling industry. He is the founding partner of Whitesmans Attorneys which he established in 2006. Garron was admitted as a South African attorney in 1996 and has BA LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Cape Town. He has been practising gambling law since 2003. For over two decades, Garron has developed and maintained a global practice in gaming, gambling and commercial law. His practice runs the full spectrum of regulatory, commercial, corporate and new media-related work within the field with a particular expertise in online gaming and gambling. Garron has litigated industry-related matters in the High Courts of South Africa and England, state and federal courts in the United States of America, state and federal courts in Germany and the European Court of Justice. Garron has tremendous experience in license applications and/ or compliance and/ or regulatory hearings/ reviews in South Africa, Gibraltar, Malta, Alderney, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Australia, Germany and other international jurisdictions. He acts for online, mobile and land-based bookmakers, betting exchanges and casino, poker, bingo, and skills games, sweepstakes, competition and lottery (messenger and secondary) operators; software and games providers and manufacturers; and service companies within the gambling industry, many of whom are the leading and/ or largest participants in the industry in South Africa and/ or internationally. Garron has lived and practised as an associate and/ or partner at law firms in Cape Town and London. Before specialising in the gambling industry, his experience included commercial, corporate, corporate finance and restructuring, insolvency and litigation. Garron is also a non-executive director of several industry participants who hold licences in Alderney, the United Kingdom and Ontario. He is a founding director of Virya.vc.