Robert Ruben Bio

Robert L. Ruben is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group and team lead for the Gaming Industry Group. For more than 30 years, Mr. Ruben has focused his practice on gaming law, representing participants in the gaming industry in multiple jurisdictions with respect to a wide variety of regulatory and enforcement matters and business transactions. Resident in the firm’s Baltimore and Washington, D.C. offices, Mr. Ruben appears regularly before the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission and has been involved in Pennsylvania gaming since its inception in 2005, having represented one of Pennsylvania’s first “Category 1” Racetrack Casinos for its initial licensing by the State Horse Racing Commission and the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Mr. Ruben has also advised clients with respect to gaming issues and M&A transactions in numerous other jurisdictions, including Nevada, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, Delaware, New York, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and handles financing and M&A transactions throughout the United States. In addition to entities and individuals who participate directly in gaming and hospitality businesses, Mr. Ruben's clients include financial institutions, private equity firms, hedge funds, private investors, and investment bankers that must either be licensed by gaming regulators, obtain waivers from the licensing requirements, or structure their transactions in a manner that does not require such approvals. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Ruben was a member of the board of directors of MTR Gaming Group, Inc., which later merged with Eldorado Resorts, Inc. and most recently Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq:CZR), and from 1999 to 2002 was licensed as a principal by the Nevada Gaming Commission. Mr. Ruben is a 1986 graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and the Woolsack Honor Society, and a 1983 graduate of the University of Virginia.