Samir Patel is a sports and technology attorney in Holland & Knight's Miami office. Mr. Patel has built a niche practice assisting cutting-edge startups to Fortune 500 companies with structuring, negotiating and closing complex commercial arrangements involving innovative products and/or strategic intellectual property (IP) rights. His clients operate in various industries, including professional sports leagues, teams and athletes, gambling operators, sweepstakes operators, financial institutions, software developers, financial technology (FinTech), private equity and video gaming.

With a technical background in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology, Mr. Patel advises clients looking to leverage the nascent technologies in today's rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. Mr. Patel routinely advises on matters pertaining to federal and state laws and regulations, data privacy and rights, geographical and spatial location, federal and state securities and commodities laws and regulations, money transmissions, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and newly drafted federal and state laws pertaining to the creation and use of AI.

Leveraging his distinct legal and technical knowledge, Mr. Patel advises online sports gambling and internet gaming (iGaming) operators on how to develop new technologies while maintaining compliance under the federal, state and Tribal laws. He has drafted a number of articles on the future of internet-based gambling, having been published and cited in Bloomberg Law, Law360, ESPN and SportsHandle.