Carl Rohsler

Practice Areas

Carl Rohsler is a Partner and Head of Commercial, IP & Technology (CIPT) at Memery Crystal.

He specialises in intellectual property (IP) work and is well-known for his expertise in the field of gambling law.

Carl’s practice covers the full range of IP work, including patents, trade marks and designs, copyright and confidential information.

Although working on both contentious and non-contentious matters, he is best known for his work as a litigator, having been involved in a number of leading IP cases in the last 25 years. He became a Solicitor Advocate (Civil) in 2001.

Carl is also known as one of the UK’s leading experts on gambling law, having acted for many of the leading gambling operations in the UK and across the world. He has advised leading names such as 888.com, Caesars Interactive, Gala Coral, The Health Lottery Limited and Gaming Realms plc, as well as advising governments and regulators on gambling policy.

Carl also has considerable experience in advertising and marketing regulation, data protection, e-commerce and labelling and packaging law. He is an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, France.

Career

2018 – Present: Partner, Head of Commercial, IP and Technology, Memery Crystal

2003 – 2018: Partner, Squire Patton Boggs LLP

1995-2003: Associate, Norton Rose

1993 – 1995: Trained Norton Rose Fulbright2003

1991 – 1993: University of Law, Chester

1988 – 1991: Merton College, Oxford, MA History

Publications

He is the author / editor of several leading academic works in his field including:

- The Statute Guide to the Gambling Act 2005 (Sweet & Maxwell 2005)

- The Statute Guide to the National Lottery Act 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell 2006)

- Licensing Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell 2008)

- General editor of The Gambling Law Review 2015-2022