Segev LLP

Marius Adomnica

Marius Adomnica is a Partner at Segev LLP with 15 years of legal experience across a varied practice spanning technology, fintech, iGaming, and video gaming, underpinned by a strong corporate-commercial and securities law background. He has over a decade of experience working with emerging and established technology companies in British Columbia, assisting with company formation, financings, commercial agreements, and complex corporate transactions, and takes pride in supporting Vancouver's technology ecosystem. Marius leads the firm's fintech and payments practice group, assisting companies with Money Service Business/FINTRAC and Retail Payment Activities Act registration and compliance issues, legal opinions, and merchant processing agreements. He has particular experience assisting fintechs based outside of Canada in navigating Canada's regulatory regime, and is ranked as a leading fintech lawyer in Canada by Chambers and Partners in their annual FinTech guide. Marius also has extensive experience advising on Canadian gaming and betting law. He assists operators, suppliers, and affiliates with registration and market access in Ontario's and Alberta's regulated gaming markets, regularly prepares legal opinions for clients assessing the Canadian market, and guides them through corporate structuring, supplier arrangements, and regulatory engagement. He is recognized as Repeatedly Recommended in Gaming Law by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. He maintains an active video game and esports practice, working with studios and publishers on studio formation, publishing agreements, terms of service, and influencer and content creator agreements. Marius co-founded the BC Esports Association and served as its Vice President, and co-founded a content creator management agency. He speaks and publishes regularly across these sectors and handles a full range of corporate, commercial, and securities work, including private placements, M&A, and governance support.

Daleep Aujlay

Daleep Aujlay is a Partner at Segev LLP and a business, estate, real estate, and gaming lawyer. He has expertise in representing individuals, private companies, and trust companies in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner. Daleep has worked with startups and well-established businesses on corporate structuring and restructuring, financing, wealth preservation, asset and share purchases and sales, shareholder matters, contractual needs, and commercial matters. Daleep has extensive experience assisting individual clients with estate administration and estate planning. He advises executors and trustees on administering trusts and estates, and advises beneficiaries of their rights and interests in trusts and estates. He has helped clients meet their estate planning goals while considering tax implications through the drafting of wills and trusts, and has aided clients with powers of attorney and healthcare agreements such as representation agreements and advance directives. A large portion of Daleep's practice is dedicated to aiding business and estate clients with the conveyance of residential and commercial real estate, and acting for individuals purchasing or selling their residential property. Together with Alon Segev, he leads Segev LLP's real estate lending practice, acting for private lenders, mortgage investment corporations, and chartered banks on secured lending transactions across British Columbia. Daleep also supports clients in the gaming and sports sectors with regulatory and commercial guidance. Prior to practicing law, Daleep was an entrepreneur who started a business with his family and spent years growing it into the successful venture it is now.

Mark Balestra

Mark Balestra is a Partner and US Special Counsel at Segev LLP, based in St. Louis, and heads the firm's U.S. practice. He joined Segev LLP in 2017 and has counselled clients in the gaming and gambling industries, particularly in technology-driven sectors, for over two decades. His expertise spans online gambling, poker, skill gaming, sweepstakes, social gaming, affiliate marketing, fantasy sports, esports, and tribal gaming. His transactional experience spans regulatory compliance, corporate formation and structuring, securities, intellectual property, finance, due diligence, M&A, commercial agreements, and employment matters. Mark has authored legal opinions covering skill gaming, fantasy sports, sweepstakes, sports betting, affiliate marketing, casino games, charitable gaming, online poker, and contests, and has helped gaming and gambling clients obtain regulatory approval in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. Before joining Segev LLP, Mark was the founding member of gaming and betting consultancy BolaVerde Media Group and served as its director from 2009 to 2016, advising clients on compliance strategies for the U.S. gambling industry and preparing foreign gambling businesses for U.S. market entry. He co-founded iGaming North America, an annual conference focused on the convergence of traditional and digital gambling in North America. Mark has been a regular contributor to several gaming trade publications and has been featured as a gaming and betting expert by numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, ESPN, CNET, Wired, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2006, he was named one of Global Gaming Business magazine's 25 People to Watch in the worldwide gambling industry.

Manav Bhargava

Manav Bhargava is an accomplished legal professional with expertise in compliance, gaming law, and regulatory affairs. Manav heads the firm's Gaming and Gambling practice in Ontario and the firm's India desk. Manav is a dual-licensed lawyer with a decade of experience in gaming and betting, regulatory and corporate compliance across two common law jurisdictions i.e., Canada and India. Prior to joining Segev LLP, Manav oversaw compliance operations at Kaizen Gaming (Ontario). Manav also worked with Esports Capital Corp. as the Director of Research, heading legal and compliance functions. He actively tracks regulatory developments with respect to gaming and betting, sports betting and monetized competitive skill gaming in Canada and India to advise clients across the globe. As a thought leader Manav identifies issues impeding the growth of the iGaming industry and regularly makes representations to regulators in different jurisdictions to facilitate gaming and betting industry's continued growth. He holds a master's degree in law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, and a Corporate Secretary qualification from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Manav is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Bar Council of Delhi.

David McHugh

David McHugh is a Partner at Segev LLP. His practice focuses primarily on the needs of technology businesses. David is a highly skilled transactional lawyer with a focus on regulated spaces, technology, privacy law, employment law, and gaming law, and he frequently provides expert guidance to local and international clients in the technology and gaming industries. David assists clients with the drafting and negotiation of business contracts, including cloud services agreements, software development agreements, software licensing agreements, purchase and sale agreements, manufacturing agreements, distribution agreements, IT services agreements, shareholders' agreements, and terms of service. He also negotiates and drafts employment agreements, including those for senior executives, and is frequently relied upon to resolve employment-related disputes and to advise on high-risk terminations. David advises business clients on equity compensation strategies, including the granting of stock options, restricted share units, and phantom shares. Outside of his transactional work, clients depend on his practical advice for navigating challenging regulatory regimes, and his proficiency in analyzing complex, unsettled areas of law makes him a go-to source for legal opinions on novel issues. David is licensed to practice in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.

Alon Segev

Alon Segev is the Managing Partner of Segev LLP, a full-service business law firm with offices across Canada and the U.S. Alon has over two decades of experience in gaming and betting, M&A and commercial transactions, corporate transactions, real estate, secured lending, technology, and dispute resolution. His focus on risk analysis, decision-making, and process implementation leads to successful negotiations and risk mitigation for his clients. Alon's clients come from a variety of industries, including digital media, technology, gaming, lending, retail, real estate, hospitality, and manufacturing. Alon is a sought-after speaker who is regularly invited to speak at conferences around the world, including the Canadian Gaming Summit, Next.io, SiGMA, the American Bar Association, SBC, IAGA, and ICE Barcelona. He is ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers & Partners.

Ron Segev

Ron Segev is a Founding Partner of Segev LLP. Ron is a practical-minded business lawyer with a keen eye for opportunity, but also a sensitivity to risk. Ron is a specialized gaming and betting lawyer, experienced in assisting online and land-based casinos and sportsbooks, and developers, studios, platforms and operators offering social games, skill games, sports betting, fantasy sports, v-sports, live dealer, and other gaming and betting products. Ron has assisted clients worldwide with their corporate finance and M&A, commercial, IP, transactional, licensing, regulatory and compliance needs. Ron has extensive experience in the iGaming sector and has appeared as an expert speaker on the topic for various media outlets and at various high-profile events and conferences. Ron is also licensed to practice in Alberta, a member of the International Association of Gaming Advisors, a General Member of the International Masters of Gaming Law, and is ranked by Chambers & Partners as a Band 1 lawyer in Canada, Chambers' highest ranking. Ron is also a member of Segev LLP's busy Securities Practice Group and has experience guiding clients through the complexities of private and public finance. Beyond gaming and betting, Ron has considerable experience assisting clients in highly regulated industries including blockchain and cannabis with their financing needs. More broadly, Ron has years of experience working with a wide variety of technology clients, including data analytics companies, digital media and creative agencies, online marketers and affiliates, e-commerce companies, software and SaaS providers, enterprise software companies (including CRM and ERP providers), and app developers. Along with Segev LLP's Blockchain Practice Group, Ron has experience working with some of the top distributed ledger technology companies in Canada and worldwide. He has assisted blockchain application development companies, miners, brokers, exchanges, token projects, DeFi, GameFi, Web3, NFTs and other metaverse-related projects. Ron can assist in establishing key relationships and partnerships, negotiating joint ventures, navigating mergers and acquisitions, and addressing corporate development needs. Segev LLP has been ranked in the Chambers and Partners 2027 Guide as a top-tier firm for Gaming and Licensing, and Ron has been rated as a Band 1 gaming lawyer.