Nicholas Casiello Jr. has been a gaming lawyer since 1980 and is chair of Fox Rothschild’s gaming group, practicing in the firm’s Atlantic City office. Apart from the Hard Rock and Empire City matters he mentions below, Casiello handled numerous other significant deals in the past year. Among them were his representation of Wynn Resorts and a subsidiary in a licensure matter for the $2.6 billion Encore Boston Harbor project in Boston, representation of Tavistock Group and Harmony Cove in a casino licensure matter for a $1 billion project in Jamaica, and representation of Churchill Downs in its partnership with Golden Nugget Atlantic City for online gambling and sports betting. He also is active in various professional and industry groups.

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