Quebec's Amaya Gaming Group Inc. strengthened its hand June 12, when it announced its acquisition of Rational Group Ltd., from Oldford Group Limited from $4.9 billion. Amaya would pick up the online gaming brads PokerStars annd Full Tilt Poker and become the world's largest publicly traded online gaming company.
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Greenberg Traurig also acted for Amaya, with a team led by global corporate securities practice chair Gary Epstein. Other Greenberg lawyers on the deal include partners Drew Altman, Jacqueline Becerra, Lorne Cantor, Gary Cooper, Cindy Davis, Evan Georgopoulos, Justin Hamer, Yosbel Ibarra, Russell Lamb, Lisa Navarro, John Pappalardo, Joey Shabot, Alan Sutin, Thomas van der Vliet and Paul Westhoff, of counsel Dustin Schloss, and associates Rob Collier-Wright and Nicoleta Timofti.
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