Sara Gonso Tait serves as an advisor and legal counsel to all types of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, across the gaming industry and other highly regulated markets including crypto currency, cannabis and alcohol. Ms. Tait provides strategic advice and analysis of laws and regulations so clients can take advantage of opportunities and avoid risk.

Ms. Tait previously served as executive director of the Indiana Gaming Commission. In that role, she was chief regulator of Indiana’s 13 casinos, an industry that brings in more than $500 million in tax revenues each year and employs more than 12,000 people. Ms. Tait was also responsible for regulating a significant charitable gaming industry, boxing and mixed martial arts, an illegal gambling police force, paid fantasy sports and sports wagering.

With broad skills in legislative, government, regulatory and tribal affairs, Ms. Tait brings a unique perspective that includes a wide array of experience with complicated and complex mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies. She also successfully launched retail and mobile sports betting on an aggressive timeline and created a nationally praised and replicated regulatory environment. Additionally, she was appointed by Governor Eric Holcomb to lead negotiations for the first ever tribal-state compact for class III gaming and subsequently shepherded the executed compact through the Indiana General Assembly. Ms. Tait also implemented innovative technology requests and countless significant capital investment projects.

Ms. Tait is a graduate of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (J.D., 2010) and Miami University (B.A., with honors, 2005).