Gambling Consulting Firms
DDI is a global leadership consulting firm that helps companies hire, promote and develop exceptional leaders at every level of the organization. Built on five decades of research and experience, DDI’s evidence-based leadership solutions enable millions of leaders around the world to succeed, propelling their organizations to new heights. Spectrum Gaming Group - Independent Research and Professional Services Spectrum Gaming Group is a non-partisan consultancy that specializes in the economics, regulation and policy of legalized gambling worldwide. We have provided independent research and professional services to public- and private-sector clients since 1993.
Feasibility Studies, Economic Impact Reports, and Gambling Industry Consulting
Christiansen Capital Advisors, LLC (CCA) is an independent research and consulting firm with expertise in the economics, management, operations, taxation, and regulation of the leisure and entertainment industry.
CCA serves a wide range of clients including: privately held gaming operators; large publicly traded gaming corporations; local, state,and federal regulatory agencies and commissions; tribal governments; independent non-profit groups and taxpayer's associations; and international investment banks and venture capital firms.
Research Projects
CCA maintains a database of all forms of legal, regulated gambling in the United States. For more than three decades our annual summary of gambling industry revenues, wagering trends, and government tax receipts 'The Gross Annual Wager of the United States' has been widely cited by industry trade publications and news organizations across North America and around the globe.
Eugene Christiansen Papers Now Available for Research
The UNLV University Libraries has made the Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers available to researchers through the Special Collections and Archives Division at Lied Library.
Christiansen is a consultant and chairman of Christiansen Capital Advisors, LLC. He has worked as a consultant for the commercial gaming and entertainment industries since 1976, and written extensively on gambling legalization and regulation, the economic impacts of legalized gambling, taxation of gambling and entertainment, Native American gaming, and pari-mutuel wagering. Christiansen is a member of the National Council on Problem Gambling and the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers, dating from 1948 to 2017, contain research files, reports, and presentations about gambling written and collected by Christiansen. Most of the collection is comprised of research files and reports about legalized gambling, casinos, hotels, racetracks, and entertainment venues, including the economic impacts of legalized gaming, popularity of off-track betting, horse and dog racing, table games, gambling addiction, gaming regulation, taxes, lotteries, and Native American gaming.
Processing of the collection by UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives was made possible by a $129,600 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). A complete summary of the items available in the collection can be found online www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ead/MS-00561_christiansen.pdf.
More About Christiansen Capital Advisors, LLC
In addition to industry consulting and research CCA provides a number of other services including expert testimony and legal support and assistance with academic research. For more information about what CCA has to offer please visit our About page to review our company background and experience.
Professional, Experienced, Casino and Gaming Consultants
Veriti Consulting offers a unique combination of experience in the gaming and casino industry that few financial consulting firms possess. Our gaming consulting professionals hold in-depth knowledge of gaming related issues such as MICS/TICS consulting, gaming and casino valuation, states compact value drivers, and working with gaming commissions and tribal governments.
Gaming and Consulting Experience
- Valuation of casinos and gaming operations – We have prepared business valuations for various gaming assets, including licenses, casino, and card rooms.
- Forensic accounting – Veriti professionals have conducted analysis of potential employee theft for tribal retail operations.
- MICS/TICS review – We have provided in-depth review of internal controls, MICS/TICS analysis and recommendation plans for casinos.
- Fraud investigation – Veriti professionals have investigated casino management’s alleged illegal activities and breaches of fiduciary duty to the tribe’s governing council.
- Safeguarding assets – We have assisted casinos and tribal governments with identifying areas of operations that are vulnerable to fraud.
- Embezzlement by CEO – Veriti Consulting has performed fraud investigations of casino management resulting in revocation of gaming license.
- Investment opportunity analysis – We provide financial modeling, scenario analysis, and rate of return projection for tribal investment opportunities.
- Taxing authority investigation – We have performed investigations into questionable activities by management of tribal government taxing authority.
- Business failure analysis – Veriti professionals analyzed various tribal retail operations to determine cause of business failure, including the discovery of employee theft.
- Food & beverage inventory theft – As a result of Veriti’s forensic analysis, it was discovered poor financial results in a casino’s food and beverage department were caused by the department manager’s personal unauthorized catering business.
- Construction kickbacks – We have investigated tribal government alleged construction kickbacks.
- Gaming compact analysis – Our professionals prepared an exhaustive analysis of almost every gaming compact in the U.S. to determine the value drivers of a gaming compact to a tribe.
- General business consulting – our gaming consultants provide a broad range of general business consulting services to casinos and tribal governments.
Casino Fraud Investigation
Veriti Consulting conducted an extensive fraud investigation for a Native American gaming facility in which one of the top executives was alleged to have committed embezzlement, violated an employment agreement, and breached fiduciary duty to the tribe’s governing body. The trier of fact used Veriti’s report to assist in the allegations, which resulted in the loss of the executive’s gaming license and settlement of the lawsuit against the individual.