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Tami Bogutz Steinberg

Shareholder and Chair, Gaming Law Group

Tami Bogutz Steinberg is a seasoned corporate attorney who represents principally entrepreneurs and closely held businesses, assisting companies across a wide range of industries, and with multiple diverse legal issues. Her practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, partnership and shareholder transactions, dispute resolutions, corporate governance and contracting, and private placements. She frequently functions as outside general counsel and provides legal advice, assistance and oversight regarding matters that include corporate, tax, labor, intellectual property, real estate and litigation.

Well-known and highly regarded in the casino/gaming industry, Ms. Steinberg represents casino developers and operators principally in the context of developing new facilities. She assists with obtaining financing and licensing, and negotiating management agreements; handles general corporate, contractual and regulatory matters; and oversees lobbying efforts, real estate, labor, employment and litigation issues.

Ms. Steinberg possesses considerable experience in the area of business breakups. She regularly assists litigators in resolving shareholder and partner disputes that are in active litigation or in which litigation is threatened. She represents majority shareholders, minority shareholders and disenfranchised parties. She also counsels business owners in how to protect themselves in the event of a business dispute.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Steinberg was a partner with Wolf Block LLP until its dissolution in 2009. She was also previously a member at Cozen O’Connor PC for several years.

Representative Matters

  • Representing a public gaming company in its bid as manager/developer for a resort casino license in Pennsylvania
  • Representing a public gaming company in its bid for a gaming license in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including agreement to finance a new hockey arena
  • Representing a public racetrack company in all matters, including simulcasting at casinos, regulatory approvals and compliance, financings, securities filings, and ultimate sale of racetracks and related assets
  • Representing developers of the first Native American urban casino in California, including regulatory matters with the state of California, Department of Interior and National Indian Gaming Commission, land into trust issues, negotiating management and buyout agreements, overseeing lobbying efforts and various contractual matters
  • Represented technology company in sale of its assets, including ongoing consulting agreements, earn-out and purchase price adjustments
  • Representing employee screening company in various financings, restructurings and spin-offs, as well as real estate contracting and general corporate and shareholder matters
  • Represented durable medical equipment supplier in contractual matters, shareholder and employee issues and eventual sale of company
  • Represented a transport temperature control supplier in the sale of its assets to Thermo King Corporation, a unit of Ingersoll Rand Company Limited
  • Represented an owner of a food processing and packaging equipment company in a shareholder dispute and ultimate restructuring of the company
  • Represented a technology integration and consulting company in private equity and debt financings, acquisitions and general corporate matters

Honors & Awards

  • Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Named to the "Legal Elite" list by SmartCEO Magazine, 2011 
  • Top Attorney List, SJ Magazine, 2011

Professional Affiliations

  • International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA)
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
    • Vice Chair, Health Care and Hospital Law Committee, 1994
  • Philadelphia Bar Association
  • Southern New Jersey Development Council
    • Member, Membership and Marketing Committee (2007 – 2010)
  • Hadassah (Raquella Chapter)
  • Association for Corporate Growth
    • Membership Committee, 2001 – 2006
  • National Association of Bond Lawyers
    • 1993 – 1997
  • Woodrock, Inc.
    • Board Member, 2002 – 2005
  • Villanova University School of Law
    • Firm Representative, 2000 – 2004
  • Freire Charter School
    • Mentor, 2000 – 2001

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Education

  • Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1989
  • Pennsylvania State University, B.S., Finance, 1986