USA
Practice Areas
Gaming & Administrative Law
Career
Prior to becoming a private practice gaming attorney, Mr. Giordano first served as a Deputy Nevada Attorney General representing the Nevada Gaming Control Board (“NGCB”) and Nevada Gaming Commission (“NGC”), and then served, for four years, as the Chief of the Corporate Securities Division of the NGCB. In that position, he oversaw licensing investigations, analysis and monitoring of publicly traded corporations associated with Nevada gaming licensees. These included mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, and compliance activities of business operations of publicly traded corporations and their subsidiaries. He also supervised the investigations for approvals and the subsequent monitoring of all gaming activities conducted outside the State of Nevada by Nevada gaming licensees, including multiple investigations conducted in foreign countries.
Mr. Giordano has decades of unmatched expertise in the details of Nevada gaming law and related licensing and regulatory procedures. In addition to serving as Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of Nevada’s Gaming Law Section, he is the Chief Editor and Author of the Nevada Gaming Law Practice and Procedure Manual and Co-Editor of Nevada Gaming Lawyer, both published by the State Bar of Nevada’s Gaming Law Section. Mr. Giordano is also a member of the Gaming Law Advisory Board of the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law and a member of the Editorial Board Advisory Committee for the UNLV Gaming Law Journal.
Mr. Giordano’s clients include gaming companies, financial institutions doing business with gaming companies, institutional investors and lenders from around the world, underwriters of gaming business leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings, lenders finding their loans to gaming companies requiring appointment of receivers or assistance in bankruptcy, and vendors to gaming companies having to address compliance obligations and possible licensing or gaming related approval issues. Mr. Giordano is also a member of the Gaming Compliance Committees of numerous U.S. and international gaming companies, and also serves as Special Counsel to and Chairman of these critical Committees.
Awards and Recognitions
Martindale-Hubbell – AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating (since 2002)
Business Today – Top 10 Influential Nevada Gaming & Licensing Lawyers (2023)
Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business – Band 2 in Gaming & Licensing Law/Nevada and Band 2 in Gaming & Licensing Law/U.S.-Nationwide (2004-2024)
The Best Lawyers in America – Gaming Law (2005-2024)
The Best Lawyers in America – Administrative & Regulatory Law (2024)
Vegas Inc – Top Lawyers in Gaming Law (2022-2024)
Mountain States Super Lawyers – “Super Lawyers” (2007-2020, 2022-2024)
Professional Memberships
Chair, Spring Conference Program Committee, International Masters of Gaming Law, 2023
Vice Chair, Executive Committee, State Bar of Nevada’s Gaming Law Section
Vice Chair, ABA Business Law Section’s Gaming Law Committee
Member, International Association of Gaming Advisors
Member, International Masters of Gaming Law
Member, Gaming Law Advisory Board, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
Publications
Co-Editor, Nevada Gaming Lawyer, annual publication of the State Bar of Nevada’s Gaming Law Section
Member, Editorial Board Advisory Committee, UNLV Gaming Law Journal
Chief Editor and Author, Nevada Gaming Law Practice and Procedure Manual, State Bar of Nevada’s Gaming Law Section
Panel Presenter, “Pipeline to Leadership” program at Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, hosted by Affinity Bar Associations and State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors, Sections, and Committees, 2023
Panel Moderator, “Investment Opportunities in the Gambling Industry and Navigating the Regulatory Issues,” IMGL Spring Conference – 2023
IMGL Masterclass Presenter, “Antitrust and Regulatory Divestment: How Will the Consolidations of the Future Move Forward?”, National Council of Legislators from Gaming States Winter Meeting 2022
Author, “Recent Leadership and Position Changes within the Nevada Gaming Control Board,” Nevada Gaming Lawyer – September 2022
Presenter, “US/Canada Updates,” IMGL Autumn Conference 2022
Presenter, “Sports Betting: Lessons the USA Can Learn from Europe,” IMGL Spring Conference 2019
Presenter, “Government, Regulation & Compliance Roundtable Panel,” 26th Executive Development Program 2016
Presenter, “AML in Europe, US and Asia”, IMGL Autumn Conference – 2016
Presenter, “What is Gambling?”, ABA 20th Annual National Institute on Gaming Law Minefield – February 2016
