The Games We're Playing Now: Global Legal Developments in Sweepstakes, Social Gaming & Prediction Markets
Join members of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance for a substantive discussion of developments in sweepstakes, contests, social gaming, prediction markets, and other gaming-adjacent promotions deployed across digital and retail channels worldwide, and the evolving regulatory responses to these models. Speakers from around the world will examine how regulators, self-regulatory bodies, courts, and enforcement agencies are analyzing current and emerging promotional models—particularly where chance, consideration, prize, gambling, and consumer-protection frameworks intersect—and how businesses are structuring compliant offerings across jurisdictions. Topics may include:
- Sweepstakes casinos and social gaming mechanics: legal characterizations, new legislation and rulemaking, enforcement trends, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Prediction markets and related models: evolving regulatory approaches and convergence with gambling law.
- Mystery boxes, trading cards, and randomized-value products: gambling vs. promotional frameworks, disclosure and odds issues, and youth-facing concerns.
- Skill contest models: key considerations when structuring user-generated content contests, film competitions, reality shows, and judged or voting contests.
- Charitable fundraising promotions: sweepstakes, raffles, auctions, and gambling-style fundraising, including new laws affecting online fundraising platforms.
- Practical compliance and governance: terms and conditions, prize substantiation and fulfillment, dispute resolution, licensing and registration, advertising and influencer rules, AML and financial flows, data privacy, and cross-border compliance.
Date & Time
March 19, 2026
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EST
Moderator
Melissa Steinman
Venable LLP (USA)
Speakers
Roberta Rezende Medina de Amorim
Veirano Advogados (Brazil)
Lauren Shrubb
Harris + co. (Canada)
Anthony Leung
Haldanes (Hong Kong)
Montserrat Landaverde Domínguez
Arochi & Lindner (Mexico)
José Maria Alves Pereira
Abreu Advogados (Portugal)
Minal Sapra
Karawani & Co. (UAE)