Emerging national gaming attorney with in-depth transactional and regulatory experience. Has specialized expertise in growing areas of online gaming, sports betting and Indian gaming. Utilizes corporate background to navigate gaming matters.
Trayton Oakes brings focus and extensive experience in representing clients in online gaming, sports betting, tribal gaming and other gaming-related commercial arrangements and regulatory matters. He has represented both U.S. brick-and-mortar casinos, and U.S. and foreign online gaming and sports betting operators and platform providers on online gaming, sports betting and sponsorship transactions as well as Indian gaming management and consulting agreements. Trayton has a strong understanding of the emerging legislative and regulatory structures in online gaming and sports betting. He assists clients with understanding and navigating these structures as well as applying for and obtaining gaming licenses and approvals from regulatory bodies.
Prior to focusing on gaming matters, Trayton obtained a diverse background in corporate and joint venture transactional, governance and securities laws matters, including representing both large and start-up public and private company clients in securities offerings and general corporate, regulatory and reporting matters.
Before joining the firm, Trayton was an honors program intern for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Before law school, Trayton worked for a FINRA registered broker dealer as a Series 7 FINRA licensed registered representative.