David Adams
Associate
Clifford Chance
David G. Adams focuses on broker-dealer, exchange, investment adviser, and investment company regulatory and enforcement matters involving traditional and digital assets.
David's practice focuses on the intersection of technology and US financial regulatory frameworks and on the increasing impact of environmental, social and governance considerations on financial services providers. He has extensive experience advising US and multi-national clients on the establishment and maintenance of complex brokerage, asset management, and digital asset operations. David also advises clients regarding SEC and FINRA inquiries and investigations, internal investigations, M&A transactions and investment due diligence, advertising and marketing considerations, AML compliance, and the creation and negotiation of brokerage, advisory, trading platform, and other financial services agreements.
David's practice spans over 15 years and includes experience working at both the US Securities & Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Rehan Ahmed
Chief Product Officer
Marketnode
Rehan Ahmed is Chief Product Officer and founding team member at Marketnode, an SGX & Temasek joint venture focused on digital assets. Within this role, he focuses on product development and the digitalisation of capital markets products including bonds, funds infrastructure and sustainable finance. As Head of Fixed Income Products & Digital Assets at SGX, Rehan oversaw the launch of a digital bond issuance platform that culminated in the Marketnode partnership.
Rehan began his career at Bear Stearns (London) fixed income trading desk in 2005 and subsequently held positions within credit structuring & trading (UBS AG, London) and portfolio management at CDC Group UK (now British International Investment), a UK development finance institution.
He has been based in Asia since 2010, where he joined Bloomberg L.P.’s FICC trading team and oversaw a number of regional market trading initiatives such as the launch of Pakistan’s first online debt auction system and Sri Lanka’s interdealer debt trading platform. He joined SGX from IDFC Securities (Singapore) where he was responsible for overseeing India access products for global investors.
Rehan was involved in the launch of new platforms including SGX’s institutional bond trading platform (2016) and led its General Counterparty service (2018) rollout before focusing on digital assets. He was one of key SGX representatives on industry bodies such as ICMA, FIX Trading Community and Singapore National Markets Practice Group (NMPG).
Rehan attended Ecole Sciences-Po (Paris) before attaining his Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University and subsequently a Masters in Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).
David Alfrey
Lawyer
Clifford Chance
David Alfrey specialises in ESG litigation and advisory work, AML Investigations and Business and Human Rights, with a particular emphasis on the Sports sector.
David is a member of the Global ESG Board of the firm and has extensive experience in governance advice and structures, advising globally on boardroom risk and value creation, and associated policies. He has also advised clients within the sports, financial, private equity and other sectors on human rights and environmental considerations. David has additionally advised on AML Investigations in the UK. Having practised as a Finance lawyer previously, David has also supported Aviation and Project Financing projects.
David has lived in Pakistan, Dubai and London, and has completed secondments to clients including NatWest Bank, supporting the litigation and investigations function.
David supports the Firm's pro bono initiatives working closely with the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, the Natural History Museum, the Institute for Human Rights and Business, and the Invictus Games Foundation
Jamie Andrew
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Jamie Andrew is experienced in negotiating strategic commercial contracts, including in the context of transactions and technology procurement, and regularly advises on contemporary and emerging technology issues, data regulation and exploitation and cyber incident preparedness and response.
Jamie advises clients across a range of sectors including technology, sport, private equity and financial services.
Phil Angeloff
Counsel
Clifford Chance
Philip Angeloff is a counsel in the US Financial Services Regulatory Group. His practice spans 20 years and encompasses a broad spectrum of financial services regulatory matters, including matters arising under the US anti-money laundering and sanctions laws and regulations.
Philip specializes in cross-border financial services regulatory issues and advises US and non-US financial institutions regarding compliance with US banking, securities, and derivatives laws and regulations, including matters related to authorized activities, regulatory approvals and licensing issues, prudential requirements, privacy and information security, new product and services development, financial markets and trading regulation, payments and funds transfers, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, investments, inter-affiliate transactions, margin regulations, and regulatory capital requirements.
Philip also advises clients in connection with regulatory investigations, enforcement actions and other contentious regulatory matters. He has extensive experience in crisis and risk management and in developing risk management and compliance programs.
Philip is also a member of the Clifford Chance Tech Group and advises clients on a broad spectrum of FinTech regulatory matters.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Philip was a Senior Attorney with the Office of the General Counsel of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and clerked at the US Securities & Exchange Commission and the US International Trade Commission.
Nicolas Atkinson
Ombudsman Manager
Financial Ombudsman Service
Nicolas Atkinson is an Ombudsman Manager who has been working at the Financial Ombudsman Service since 2012. He deals with a range of complaints within Banking and Lending and Consumer Credit as well as disputed transactions and complaints about strong customer authentication and digital exclusion. He is a Lead in the Supporting our Customers Practice Group specialising in complaints involving Discrimination, Equality and Vulnerability and co-chair of ENABLE, an employee network group for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions and their allies. Prior to joining the Financial Ombudsman Service, Nicolas was a litigation lawyer at Clifford Chance for over 10 years and was seconded to the Financial Conduct Authority for six months.
Neil Barlow
Partner
Clifford Chance
Neil Barlow specializes in cross-border M&A, with a particular focus on private equity transactions.
Neil advises international and domestic private equity houses, financial sponsors and corporates on a wide range of matters including acquisitions, disposals, leveraged buyouts, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, minority and growth capital investments, PIPEs, IPOs and restructurings.
Neil has particular experience of advising on M&A in North America, Europe and Latin America and is adept at executing domestic or cross-border transactions involving those geographies.
Neil has spent time on secondment with CVC Capital Partners and with 3i.
Dr Marc Benzler
Partner
Clifford Chance
Marc Benzler is a financial regulatory partner based in Frankfurt. Marc advises on M&A transactions in the financial sector, on the establishing of banks, on cross-border market access and on regulatory investigation and compliance matters. He has significant experience on the Banking Union and supervision by the ECB as well as on the digitalisation of the financial sector.
Jeff Berman
Partner
Clifford Chance
Jeff Berman leads the firm’s US Financial Services Regulatory Group, with a practice that focuses on regulatory matters involving US and non-US investment funds, asset managers, banking organizations and bank holding companies, and includes private equity and hedge fund formation and financial institutions M&A.
Jeff's bank and securities regulatory practice spans 30 years. He advises clients on the operations of foreign banking organizations in the United States, capital adequacy rules and prudential standards, and regulatory approvals for acquisitions and new activities, as well as on compliance matters involving investment advisers, private offerings, and fund governance. Jeff has recently advised the firm's global banking and investment management clients on private equity and hedge fund marketing practices, fund manager registration and reporting, Volcker Rule compliance, enhanced supervision of systemically important banks, and the cross-border effectiveness of “bail-in” and resolution stay requirements.
Jeff serves pro bono as Chair of the US Bank Sector Working Group – UK Department for International Trade (DIT), convened by DIT to facilitate its engagement with the US banking industry on issues related to trade in financial services and regulatory cooperation.
Diana Bogotá
Legal Counsel
IDB Invest
Diana is a member of the Financial Institutions Legal Division at IDB Invest (the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group). She is focused on capital markets transactions, structured finance and Fintechs across the region. She is a Colombian lawyer from Universidad de Los Andes with an LL.M. from Georgetown University. Prior to joining IDB Invest in 2020, Diana was a senior associate at the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets team at Gómez-Pinzón Abogados in Colombia and part of the legal team of the International Finance Corporation-IFC.
Gabriel Callsen
Director
ICMA
Gabriel Callsen is a Director within ICMA’s Market Practice and Regulatory Policy department, leading ICMA’s work on FinTech in the international debt capital markets. He acts as secretary to ICMA’s FinTech Advisory Committee and represents ICMA in international forums in relation to data standards, distributed ledger technology, and digital transformation in capital markets. He is also responsible for ICMA’s Common Domain Model (CDM) project for repo and bonds.
Gabriel’s background is in Economics and International Relations, and he has previously worked for the European Commission and Tradeweb.
Sébastien Van Campenhoudt
Policy Officer
Euroclear
Sébastien Van Campenhoudt works as a Policy Officer at Euroclear, specialising in policy topics related to new technologies (DLT, crypto-assets) and post-trade regulations (CSDR, SFD, etc). Prior to joining the Government Relations and Public Affairs’ team, he was leading a team of Credit Officers who’s role was to manage and assess the credit exposures of Euroclear Bank in the Middle-East, Africa, Oceania and Switzerland. Prior to this, he worked as a Hedge Fund specialist within FundSettle. He joined the Euroclear Group in 2010.
Sébastien holds a Master degree in economical science from the ICHEC Brussels Management School, Belgium, and a Bachelor degree in foreign trading at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Belgium.
Yaru Chia
Associate
Clifford Chance
Yaru Chia advises on licensing and regulatory requirements in the conduct of financial services business as well as drafting and negotiating of derivatives documentation.
She is also an adjunct research fellow at the NUS Law Centre for Banking & Finance Law, and has presented in conferences as well as written on financial regulatory issues (in both local and international legal journals)
Cliff Cone
Partner
Clifford Chance
Cliff Cone is the co-head of the US Funds and Investment Management Practice. He focuses primarily on the investment management sector and has a broad base of expertise advising alternative investment managers, registered investment companies, speciality finance companies and boards of directors with respect to all aspects of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
He specializes in the representation of closed-end funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity funds, exchange-traded funds and investment advisers. He also regularly counsels issuers and underwriters with “status” issues arising under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Cliff has extensive experience with the organization and ongoing representation of U.S. registered open-end and closed-end investment companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity funds, exchange-traded funds and business development companies. Cliff also regularly consults with investment advisers on registration and ongoing compliance and disclosure issues, including compliance with the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA).
Simon Crown
Partner
Clifford Chance
Simon Crown specialises in financial regulation, with particular focus on funds and asset management and M&A and reorganisations involving financial institutions.
Simon also has expertise in the areas of regulatory capital, client assets, transaction services (such as the regulation of payments) and European Directives relating to financial services.
Boika Deleva
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Boika specializes in banking and financial services regulation as well as derivatives, finance, securities, insolvency and general banking and insurance law matters. She advises financial sector professionals with respect to the implementation of technology-based solutions and assists Tech companies with their legal and regulatory obligations. Boika is member of the Clifford Chance Tech team.
Charles d'Haussy
Managing Director
ConsenSys
Charles d’Haussy is Asia Managing Director at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain engineering company. Among his responsibilities, he leads ConsenSys’ projects on central-bank digital currencies with HKMA, BOT, PBOC, CBUAE & BOK.
Prior to this, Charles served as head of fintech with the Hong Kong government (InvestHK). In that capacity he helped found and scale Hong Kong Fintech Week, and supported the growth of over 450 fintech companies.
He has 15 years of prior experience in Hong Kong’s private sector and is licensed to invest and deal in securities.
In 2018, Charles was elected as a Top-50 fintech influencer in Asia. In 2021 he published Block Kong, a book about Blockchain leaders shaping the Hong Kong blockchain ecosystem.
He studied in France at Rennes International Business School and in Guangzhou, China at Sun Yat Sen University. He is a certified Bitcoin professional and studied blockchain business strategy at Be9 London.
Laura Douglas
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Laura is a Senior Associate in the financial regulation group. Laura advises a range of financial institutions on regulatory change projects, day-to-day regulatory compliance and mergers and acquisitions.
Laura's areas of practice include EMIR, MiFID2, AIFMD, CSDR, FinTech and payments regulation, governance and conduct-related issues, including ESG-related regulatory requirements. She was seconded to the regulatory team at Citi in 2013 where she advised the bank on matters relating to regulation of clearing and settlement, financial collateral, securities financing transactions and payment services.
Jamal El-Hindi
Counsel
Clifford Chance
Jamal El-Hindi is a former U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Deputy Director, having previously served as the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Associate Director for Program Policy and Implementation. Jamal was also Treasury’s inaugural Chief Data Officer, with responsibility for enhancing management and use of all Treasury data.
At FinCEN, Jamal led the operational, policy, and strategic planning aspects of the bureau, overseeing rulemaking, guidance and interpretation efforts, and counselling on enforcement, regulatory analysis, and industry outreach. Jamal has demonstrated experience with respect to new payment methods, including prepaid access and virtual currency. In his role at OFAC, Jamal led Treasury engagements with industry and other stakeholders regarding compliance with OFAC sanctions, rulemaking and licensing.
Pedro Eroles
Partner
Matthos Filho
Pedro is a specialist in advisory topics for financial institutions, payment institutions, fintechs and in the most diverse types of transactions involving regulated entities, such as financing (local and cross-border), mergers and acquisitions and debt transactions. He is a consultant for the Journal of the General Counsel for the Central Bank of Brazil and coordinator of volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the collection "Fintechs, Digital Banks and Means of Payment: regulatory aspects of new financial technologies", published by Quartier Latin.
Steve Gatti
Partner
Clifford Chance
Steven Gatti specializes in regulatory enforcement proceedings before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other securities regulators, and in other regulatory matters within the financial services sector, including internal investigations.
Steve advises multi-national broker-dealers, asset managers, and other financial services companies with respect to financial markets and trading regulation, compliance, the development of new products, and financial institution mergers and acquisitions.
Anouk Gauthier
Group General Counsel
Euroclear
Anouk Gauthier is the Group General Counsel for the Euroclear group and also a member of the Euroclear Extended Management Team. As general counsel, Ms Gauthier oversees the legal services for all the activities of Euroclear and coordinate the various legal teams providing services to the various entities of the group.
Ms Gauthier joined Euroclear in 2004. She was the Head of UK Legal Affairs before taking a group role overseeing the legal support for the strategic projects. She then left Euroclear to join the London Metal Exchange Group as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of LME Clear Ltd. She returned to Euroclear in 2018 as Group General Counsel. Ms Gauthier qualified as solicitor in Quebec, Canada and is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales.
Simon Gleeson
Partner
Clifford Chance
Simon Gleeson specialises in banking and financial markets law and regulation, clearing, settlement and derivatives.
Simon's experience includes advising governments, regulators and public bodies as well as banks, investment firms, fund managers and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory issues. He is described by all of the major legal directories as one of the world's leading experts in financial services and banking regulation, capital markets and derivatives.
He is one of the lead legal advisors to the main UK banking and financial services industry bodies regarding Brexit.
In addition to his private practice, Simon is heavily engaged in the development of law and policy in finance. He chairs the Institute for International Finance's cross-border resolution committee, and is generally regarded as one of the intellectual leaders in the post-crisis reform of financial regulatory and resolution law, having worked with national and international bodies to develop the "bail-in" concept. He has been called to give evidence to UK and EU parliamentary committees, and has worked closely with other legislators around the world (including G-20 governments). He advised the World Economic Forum on its 2009 Report on The New Global Financial Architecture, and was involved in the establishment of the UK's Banking Standards Board.
Simon has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, and at King's College London, the LSE and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is currently a visiting Professor at Queen Mary University, a member of the bank resolution project of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College Oxford. He has been appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge.
Angelina Gomez
Counsel
Clifford Chance
Angelina Gomez has extensive experience advising on litigation, arbitrations and settlement negotiations on a wide range of large and complex commercial and equity matters throughout Australia and Asia for a variety of companies and high net worth families. Angelina is also an Assistant General Editor and the Book Review Editor of the Australian Law Journal (a national legal journal).
Angelina has advised clients and appeared as counsel in court trials and settlement negotiations in contractual, equitable, insolvency and estate matters; and in matters involving directors’ duties and fiduciary duties.
Megan Gordon
Office Managing Partner, Washington, DC
Clifford Chance
Megan Gordon's practice focuses on risk management, transactional due diligence, compliance and internal investigation matters. She serves as the Office Managing Partner for the firm's Washington, DC office.
Megan's work encompasses a broad range of regulatory matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), US anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions laws and regulations, export controls, privacy and US data protection laws and regulations. She advises clients on how to manage risk exposure in a wide-variety of legal areas affecting companies and financial institutions conducting international business. She also advises multinational companies in connection with transactional risks and in designing and implementing their compliance programs.
Megan is a member of our global Data Risk team
Chris Grey
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Chris Grey is part of the Tech Group and the TMT M&A team and works closely with clients on all types of cross-border M&A, equity and debt financings, capital markets and other strategic deals in the constantly evolving technology, life sciences, media and telecommunications sectors.
Chris advises clients at all stages of development: major public companies, emerging growth companies, their strategic partners, investors, private equity funds, venture capital funds and investment banks. He also regularly advises on corporate governance matters. He is qualified to practice in England and in France, with over 10 years of prior experience in the Paris market.
Joshua Hecht
Investor
Blizzard the Avalanche Fund
Joshua Hecht manages the Blizzard venture capital fund, supporting innovation on the Avalanche blockchain. His career has oscillated between being an entrepreneur, an investor, and an expert advisor on venture finance and acquisitions (venture exits). Previously, he worked with some of the largest companies in the world on high-profile M&A transactions and corporate venturing and he has launched startups focused on open-source, blockchain, and artificial intelligence technologies. Joshua is based in the Cayman Islands.
Georgia Hill
Operational Contact Manager
Financial Ombudsman Service
Georgia Hill is an Operational Contact Manager who has been working at the Financial Ombudsman Service since 2015. As an Operational Contact Manager, she is responsible for working proactively with stakeholders and mostly financially businesses to identify themes and trends, facilitate the quick resolution of problems and ensuring that our operations run smoothly.
John Ho
Global Head of Legal, Financial Markets
Standard Chartered Bank
John Ho is the Global Head of Legal, Financial Markets for Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”), overseeing and providing legal advisory, transactional and documentation support for Financial Markets (FM) business globally for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), its branches and affiliates. Mr. Ho is also the co-chair of (1) the ISDA South East Asia Legal and Regulatory Committee and (2) the ISDA Asia Pacific ESG Working group.
He is an active participant in the industry’s Fintech events and is a public speaker on topics such as Blockchain, Digital Assets, Financial Markets, Sustainability and Regulatory Reforms. He serves as a mentor to startups and recently co-authored a publication from the World Economic Forum called The Digital Currency Governance Consortium Whitepaper. He is a also mentor for the UK FCA Sustainability TechSprint, FCA Digital Sandbox, R3 and LongHash.
Prior to joining SCB, Mr. Ho was the Managing Director Principal in the legal department of Bear Stearns (Japan), Ltd (“Bear Stearns”) where he supported the Asia franchise (including Tokyo, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, India and South-east Asia) from January 2003 to August 2008 covering various structured products and derivatives including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, fixed income and commodities.
Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Ho worked as Asia equity counsel for Lehman Brothers in Tokyo with experience dealing in convertibles, options, warrants, delta one products and other types of equity derivatives transactions, equity finance and equity capital markets.
He is qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore since 1995 and he received his law degree from the National University of Singapore.
Julia Hoggett
Chief Executive Officer
London Stock Exchange plc
Julia Hoggett took up the post of Chief Executive Officer of London Stock Exchange plc on the 14th April 2021.
Prior to this position, Julia was the Director of Market Oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), responsible for overseeing the conduct of participants in the primary and secondary markets in the UK. Julia joined the FCA as Head of the Wholesale Banking Supervision Department in May 2014.
Before joining the FCA, Julia was Managing Director and Head of FIG Flow Financing and subsequently also Covered Bonds, Short-Term Fixed Income Origination and Green Debt Capital Markets for EMEA at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Prior to joining BAML, Julia was a Board Member and latterly CEO of DEPFA ACS BANK in Ireland and responsible for the long-term funding of the DEPFA BANK Group.
Julia began her career at JP Morgan in Debt Capital Markets origination roles covering Sovereign, Supranational and Agency clients and before that Sovereign and sub-Sovereign clients in Emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Julia has a degree in Social and Political Sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge University and undertook a research scholarship at Kings College, Cambridge University focused on public policy and economic development strategies in East Africa.
Julia was named one of Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in Europe’s Financial Markets in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2021. Julia was also named on the OUTstanding Top 50 list in 2013 and in its successor the Top 100 list in 2014.
Andrew Honnor
Managing Partner
Greenbrook
Andrew founded Greenbrook and brings over 30 years of financial, corporate and political communications experience to the firm. He started his career working on political campaigns in the UK and United States and was formerly a UK Government Special Advisor.
Andrew has developed leading expertise in advising global investment businesses on all areas of communications and risk management. He is an expert on issues such as exit and investment activity, fundraising, shareholder activism, partnership issues, advice to portfolio companies, ESG issues, tax investigations, judicial inquiries, and civil/criminal proceedings.
Prior to launching Greenbrook in 2012, Andrew was a member of the Executive Committee at News UK (News International), advising the company following the phone-hacking crisis.
Andrew is a trustee of The Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity and is a Governor at Lambrook School.
Dr. Mark Jackson
Senior Quantum Evangelist
Quantinuum
Dr. Mark Jackson is the Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University. He then spent 10 years researching superstring theory and cosmology, co-authoring almost 40 technical articles. To promote the public understanding of science, he founded the science crowdfunding platform Fiat Physica and non-profit Science Partnership Fund. He is Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University and a Director of Astronomers Without Borders.
Steve Jacoby
Office Managing Partner, Luxembourg
Clifford Chance
Steve Jacoby co-heads the Luxembourg Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice and handles acquisition finance, bank lending, securitisation, capital markets, regulatory, derivatives, general banking law (including litigation), corporate law and insolvency matters.
Steve is an associate lecturer (Chargé de Cours Associé) at the University of Luxembourg and a lecturer at the Luxembourg Bar School in banking, finance and capital markets law. He is a regular contributor to legal journals and a member of various advisory committees on financial law questions within Luxembourg public institutions and professional organisations.
Sanjeev Jain
Regional Head - Global Payments & Receivables, Asia Pacific
Citi
Sanjeev Jain is the Regional Head for Global Payments & Receivables, covering the full suite of transactional payments and receivables needs of corporate, commercial, financial institution and public sector clients in Asia. This is an industry-leading and strategic business for Citi and TTS and a significant growth driver. Sanjeev’s responsibilities include product development & management and driving innovation in payments space by leveraging new technologies as well as building external partnerships. As the industry goes through significant digital disruption and our clients evolve their business models to more direct-to-consumer, his responsibilities include launching new products and capabilities that meet the evolving needs of our clients.
Prior to his appointment to the current role, Sanjeev was managing the roles of Regional Product Head of Commercial Banking, Implementations and Digital Channels & Data from 2012-20.
Sanjeev started his banking career with Citi beginning of 1998 in Cash Management Operations and went on to hold various positions in Sales across Cash Management and Trade businesses in India. He then moved to Hong Kong in 2005 to take on the Global Payments Product Manager role for corporate and public sector clients for Asia Pacific before becoming the Regional Head of Public Sector, Global Transaction Services, Asia Pacific in 2009. He also spent time in Philippines and Indonesia managing the respective country transaction banking franchises, before returning to Hong Kong in 2012.
Sanjeev holds the degrees of Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and Cost & Works Accountant from the respective institutes in India.
Celeste Koeleveld
Partner
Clifford Chance
Celeste Koeleveld has over 25 years of experience in government enforcement, regulatory and civil litigation matters that span federal, state and local government in the United States. Over the course of her career, she has held senior positions in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the New York City Law Department.
Celeste represents clients, both corporates and individuals, with regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and all phases of civil, criminal and regulatory litigation, from inception through the appellate process. Her significant government experience imparts a particularly insightful perspective to her advice and counsel in matters involving regulatory agencies.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Celeste served on the executive committee of DFS, joining in 2016 as General Counsel, and ultimately serving as Deputy Superintendent and Special Counsel. During her time at DFS, she handled a broad spectrum of regulatory and enforcement actions, including disciplinary and enforcement proceedings, licensing matters, implementation of legislation and promulgation of regulations. In particular, as General Counsel, Celeste was instrumental in the development and implementation of DFS cybersecurity and transaction monitoring regulations.
In addition to her recent role at DFS, Celeste previously served for 16 years in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, rising to serve as the Chief of the Criminal Division. In that role, she led a team of more than 160 Assistant US Attorneys and oversaw all criminal investigations and prosecutions. She also served as the Chief Appellate Attorney of the SDNY for four years, overseeing the extensive appellate practice. During her tenure with the SDNY, she also served as the Chief of the General Crimes Unit.
Prior to joining DFS, Celeste served for eight years as Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department. In this role she oversaw several litigation and trial divisions and provided legal advice to City agencies responding to governmental investigation from a variety of federal, state and local prosecutors and investigative bodies.
Ellen Lake
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Ellen Lake specialises in investigations and risk advisory - advising in particular on financial crime, white collar crime, compliance failings, internal investigations, contentious regulatory matters and cyber security.
Her work covers crisis management, internal risk management and enforcement defence in multiple sectors. She has worked on a broad range of actions brought by UK authorities, as well as on complex cross-border investigations in multiple jurisdictions, particularly criminal and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions.
Ellen works with a broad range of corporate and financial services clients and spent ten months on secondment to a major bank, where she ran a legal team providing the bank's response to a s.166 skilled person investigation into financial crime failings. She has also been seconded to the dispute resolution team of another global bank where she worked on a broad range of litigation.
Ellen is a member of Clifford Chance's Tech Group, and regularly advises clients on risk in respect of virtual assets, blockchain and cyber security. She is an L&DR lead associate for the Global Cyber Security Team.
Paul Landless
Partner
Clifford Chance
Paul Landless specialises in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia.
Paul also has extensive experience in various types of structured transactions, including in relation to commodities trading, commodity financing and various forms of structured trade finance. He regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure.
He is also co-head of our Tech Group and one of the leaders of our Fintech practice. His focus is financial markets technology, algorithmic trading, crypto markets, artificial intelligence, smart contracts and DLT uses in financial markets trading, risk management, treasury, and payments.
Paul has worked in Clifford Chance's London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices, sits on the firm's global Brexit Markets Group and helps to lead the ASEAN Focus Group and the Philippines Focus Group.
Matt Langione
Partner
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Matt Langione is a Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he specializes in bringing research-driven, high-potential "deep tech" to market, and publishes regularly on topics at the nexus of science, business and policy. One of the leading global experts on industrial applications of quantum computing, Dr. Langione has authored a number of the most cited publications on the topic (including "What Happens When 'If' Turns to 'When' in Quantum Computing?") At BCG, he advises Fortune 500 companies on building quantum computing (and other technologies that are poised to leap out of the lab) into their digital transformation roadmaps. He has addressed audiences at all of the major conferences in the field, and has helped steer U.S. Government policy and investment in quantum computing.
Jaime de Larraechea Carvajal
Partner
Garrigues
Jaime has specialized in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, having experience in all corporate matters. Also, he has experience advising on cross-border transactions, specially to Chilean clients investing abroad. Likewise, he advises clients from different industries in their daily matters, including an active involvement dealing with family structures and family offices.
Mr. de Larraechea was partner at Cruzat, Vicuña, de Larraechea Abogados from its foundation until 2018. Before that, he worked with Barros & Errázuriz Abogados at the Mergers and Acquisitions and Financing Group between 2005 and 2015. Additionally, between 2011 and 2012 he worked as an International Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York. Between 2004 and 2005 he was with Estudio Etcheberry.
Jaime has been an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, teaching classes in Professional Practice Law.
Willy Lim
Global Advisory and Solutions Lead - Digital Currencies, Payments and Capital Markets
R3
Willy Lim, Global Advisory and Solutions Lead - Digital Currencies, Payments and Capital Markets at R3. Willy is a business/IT payments and capital markets subject matter expert and has been involved with several large scale initiatives on the areas of strategy, design and implementation over the past 20+ years.
Kimi Liu
Counsel
He Ping Law Firm
Kimi Liu is a counsel in the Financial Regulatory group of He Ping Law Firm. He is experienced in cyber security, data protection, financial regulatory, derivatives, formation and deregistration work for regulated entities, employee incentive plans, design of cross-border financial product, as well as China market access schemes. Kimi participated in the consultation of data export rules organised by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), and frequently advises clients on cyber-security and cross-border data compliance issues. Before joining He Ping, Kimi worked at another leading international law firm for about 10 years, and Morgan Stanley in 2015/2016, as the legal head/counsel to the board of Morgan Stanley China Bank. Kimi holds a PRC legal professional qualification certificate (currently not a PRC practising lawyer). Kimi is a native Mandarin Chinese speaker and fluent in English.
Jeff Young
Executive Vice President
Mutual of America Capital Management LLC
Jeff leads the marketing and distribution efforts for Mutual of America Capital Management LLC, where he has overall responsibility for the firm’s mutual fund families, Mutual of America Investment Corporation and Mutual of America VIP Funds, as well as product strategy to help lead the firm’s growth initiatives. Prior to joining Mutual of America, Jeff was responsible for FIS’ Asset Management & Alternatives BPaaS businesses, including Transfer Agency and Private Equity, as well as the client relationship management team within FIS Global Transfer Agency Services.
He brings over 30 years of experience in the mutual funds, wealth management, and investment services industries. Prior to joining FIS in 2017, he worked as Vice President and Director of Relationship Management of Ultimus Fund Solutions, LLC., where he was responsible for the firm’s relationship management team. Prior to the acquisition of Huntington Asset Services by Ultimus Fund Solutions, he functioned as President of both Huntington Asset Services, Inc., and its affiliated broker-dealer, Unified Financial Securities, Inc., which represented over $48 billion in assets. Earlier in his career, he held several leadership positions with BISYS Fund Services and served as a senior consultant with Broadway & Seymour.
In addition to holding various officer positions for several fund families during his career, he also served as the Chairman of the Board of Valued Advisers Trust since its inception in 2008, as Chairman of the Board of the Capitol Series Trust since its inception in 2013, and on the Board of Trustees of the Coventry Group and The Coventry Funds Trust. He currently serves on the NICSA Fund Administration Committee, and previously served as a board member and secretary to the Greater Cincinnati Mutual Fund Association as well as a representative on the ICI Small Funds Committee. He is a former member of the faculty of the Harry Blythe School of Banking, a current member of the Ohio University Trustees Academy, and a member of the Ohio University College of Business Finance Advisory Council, chairing its Diversity Committee. Most recently, he was appointed as an independent trustee for Zell Capital, a closed-end registered investment company.
He has been an industry panelist and speaker and has authored, co-authored, and published articles and papers on topics ranging from social media to fund governance. Jeff earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Ohio University, where he frequently serves as a guest lecturer.
Rodrigo López Márquez
Partner
Kuri Breña, Sánchez Ugarte y Aznar
Rodrigo López is an expert in banking and financial law, financial regulation, Fintech, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and corporate law.
He has participated in various financing operations, in which he has represented both creditors and debtors, including different financial entities, development banks and other multilateral organizations.
Moreover, Rodrigo provides advice to several real estate developers in Mexico on the purchase and sale of real estate, the negotiation of strategic alliances, and the development of financial structures for real estate projects.
Rodrigo has been involved in major merger and acquisition transactions, sale of shares and assets, representing the public and private sector, banks and private equity funds.
Furthermore, he has advised financial institutions on financial regulation issues.
Rodrigo regularly advises various domestic and international crowdfunding platforms, digital wallets, challenger banks, exchanges, payment facilitators, private equity and venture capital funds, non-bank financial institutions and commercial banks involved in the Fintech sector.
He started his career in Kuri Breña, Sánchez Ugarte y Aznar, S.C. in 2005 and has been a partner of the firm since 2015. He was a foreign associate at Arnold & Porter LLP’s Washington D.C. office between 2008 and 2009. In 2015 and 2016, he served as Legal Vice President of Itaú Unibanco in Mexico.
Tracey McDermott
Group Head, Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance
Standard Chartered Bank
Tracey joined Standard Chartered Bank as Group Head of Corporate, Public and Regulatory Affairs in March 2017, subsequently adding Brand and Marketing to her portfolio, and later Compliance (later renamed as Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance). Prior to joining the Bank, Tracey served as Acting Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), having joined in 2001 and fulfilled numerous senior roles, including Board Member, member of the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England, and Non-Executive Director of the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA). Previously, Tracey worked as a lawyer in private practice in the UK, US and Belgium. In 2016, Tracey received a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to financial service consumers and markets.
Tracey is a member of the International Regulatory Strategy Group (IRSG) Council; and a member of the Management Board of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). She also chairs the Conduct and Ethics Committee of the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) Markets Standards Board (FMSB), is on the advisory committee of 25 x 25 and the steering committee of the 30% Club.
Rocky Mui
Partner
Clifford Chance
Rocky Mui focuses on transactional funds and regulatory advisory practice. He specialises in fund establishment, authorisation of funds, licensing and regulatory advice, PRC investment programs (QFI/Stock Connect/Bond Connect/CIBM Direct Access), cross-border mergers & acquisitions and general corporate related work. Rocky also focuses on Tech / Fintech and has developed expertise in cryptocurrency/blockchain related matters.
Tom Mutton
Director responsible for CBDC
Bank of England
Tom is the Director responsible for Central Bank Digital Currency at the Bank of England. He took on this position when it was established in January 2021.
His previous roles at the Bank include Director of Fintech, Head of International Policy & Strategy, Head of Division in Prudential Policy and time as a Senior Manager responsible for the supervision of major international firms.
He was educated at the London School of Economics.
Jason Myers
Partner
Clifford Chance
Jason Myers' practice focuses on public and private capital markets and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions in the real estate, hospitality and specialty finance sectors.
Jason has extensive experience advising public companies on securities compliance, corporate governance and other corporate advisory matters. He has advised sponsors, investment banks, REITs, specialty finance companies, and business development companies in their capital raising activities, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity and debt transactions, 144A offerings and other private placements and PIPEs.
Jason also works extensively with sponsors in the non-traded sector, having advised on a variety of transactions including formation and capital raising transactions, joint ventures and liquidity events
Lena NG
Partner
Clifford Chance
Lena Ng leads the financial regulatory practice in our Singapore office and advises on the full range of financial regulatory issues relating to financial services and market products, including banking services, securities, futures, derivatives, funds and payment services.
Lena advises banks, financial institutions, corporates (including commodities houses), funds and payment service providers on licensing requirements, exemptions, conduct of business and other regulatory requirements. In addition, she advises on custody, collateral, netting and clearing issues, as well as cash and credit risk management.
Lena's practice extends to advising on bank secrecy, confidentiality and data privacy. She is also part of the firm's Tech Group and advises on fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain related matters.
Originally from Singapore, she joined Clifford Chance in 2001 after receiving her LLM from University College London. She is admitted to practice law in multiple jurisdictions including as a solicitor in England & Wales and Hong Kong, and as an advocate & solicitor in Singapore.
Beatrice O’Carroll
Managing Director
Radkl
Bea is a Managing Director at Radkl. She has been involved in crypto trading since 2015, having worked at itBit/Paxos, Circle, and co-founded an OTC trading desk. Prior to this, she spent 15 years at traditional financial services firms. Bea holds a BA from St. John's University and is an active volunteer with Hour Children, an organization based in Queens that helps incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community.
Diego Ballon Ossio
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Diego is a Senior Associate in the financial regulatory practice in London, specialising in advising financial institutions and other market participants on financial market regulation and activities related to benchmarks, financial services trading and conduct requirements as well as fintech. He gained significant experience in financial regulation working at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (and predecessor organisation) from 2010 to 2015 during the development of Project Innovate, the precursor to the FCA's regulatory sandbox. Diego is a regular speaker at fintech events. Most recently Diego has assisted various global crypto-exchange platforms to develop their strategy in the UK and Europe.
Jesse Overall
Associate
Clifford Chance
Jesse Overall's practice focuses on fintech and complex financial transactions.
Jesse's experience in the digital asset space includes advising on pioneering security token offerings and real estate tokenization transactions, product structuring and regulation for a broad range of token types, blockchain M&A deals, crypto lending, virtual currency derivatives, custody, technology licensing and service agreements, membership in open-source protocol consortia, and other emerging areas in the digital asset space. He also advises on the regulation of e-commerce marketplace platforms and videogames.
Jesse participates in the Lawyers' Committee of the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Structured Finance Industry Group's Technological Innovation Committee. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, he has been quoted on digital assets regulation in Reuters, Bloomberg, and Crowdfund Insider and has co-authored articles on the subject published in FintechPolicy.org, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, and the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, among others.
He further advises on securities offerings and corporate governance, OTC derivatives transactions, securitizations – including on US regulatory issues relating to the Volcker Rule, the Investment Company Act of 1940 and credit risk retention – and syndicated loan trading.
While at law school, Jesse served as a legal intern at both the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission
Allison Parent
Executive Director
Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA)
Allison Parent is the Executive Director for the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). She oversees the development and execution of GFMA’s priorities, helping to provide a collective voice on behalf of global financial institutions to support global capital markets. Since joining GFMA in 2017, Ms. Parent has led the association’s engagement strategy on policies to address risks that have no borders, regional market developments that impact global capital markets, and policies that promote efficient cross-border capital flows to end-users by efficiently connecting savers and borrowers, benefiting broader global economic growth.
Prior to joining GFMA June 2017, Allison was the Head of Global Regulatory Policy at Barclays. In this role, she led on the bank’s advocacy, impact analysis and execution around post-crisis regulatory law changes, such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Basel capital and liquidity reforms. Allison has regularly appeared before, and advised, finance ministers, securities authorities, central bank governors, lawmakers in Asia, US and Europe on the law and supervisory practices governing financial markets. Allison joined Barclays in its Washington DC office before moving to London.
2013 to 2015 Allison was Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel to the Bank of England. She led the Markets Directorate’s policy team on evaluating the impact of regulations on market structure and product offerings. In this role, she supported the efforts on the U.K. Fair and Effective Markets Review, the Bank of England’s response to the Capital Markets Union consultation, as well as serving as advisor on legal developments in the U.S. impacting global capital markets. Between 2005-2011 Allison served as General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget responsible for advising on U.S. fiscal matters before Congress. During this period, she was also an advisor on securities and banking matters to U.S. Senator Judd Gregg and the Republican caucus during the financial crisis, contributing to the development and passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (TARP). Allison subsequently drafted and negotiated significant provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and was budget counsel to The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Allison was raised in San Antonio, Texas and Seattle, Washington. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the South Texas College of Law and Bachelor of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. She has lived and worked, or studied, in Washington D.C., London, Texas, and Florence, Italy.
Benjamin Peacock
Associate
Clifford Chance
Benjamin Peacock is a senior associate in Clifford Chance's Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in New York. He represents clients in cross-border criminal and regulatory investigations and complex commercial litigation and arbitration.
Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Benjamin interned at the New England Legal Foundation, where he assisted in authoring briefs for the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.
Benjamin received a JD from the New York University School of Law and a BA in philosophy from the University of Georgia. He is admitted to practice in New York.
Weikai Phang
Executive Director Digital Currency Product
Standard Chartered Bank
Weikai Phang, Executive Director Digital Currency Product at Standard Chartered Bank. In his current role, Weikai is responsible for Standard Chartered group’s innovation initiatives and product management for digital currencies payment products in transaction banking. Among his areas of interest are novel cross-border clearing and settlement, CBDCs, and embedded payments. Before joining Standard Chartered Bank, Weikai spent over 10 years in solution architecting and consulting in financial market technologies at Murex, Finastra, Accenture and R3. He was the consulting programme director in Project Inthanon and Project Inthanon-Lionrock (now Project mBridge).
Daniel Londoño Pinzón
Partner
Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta
Daniel is an attorney with over 20 years of professional experience. He is a partner of the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice group of Gómez-Pinzón.
Daniel focuses his practice on advising Colombian companies or local, international, and multilateral financial institutions on financing processes and debt and equity issuance transactions in national and international securities markets.
In addition, he leads the entrepreneurship practice group whereby the firm serves entrepreneurs in the different fields of law.His experience in these areas has positioned Daniel as a benchmark in the fintech market as he has been invited to participate as a mentor in programs launched by well-known organizations, including Endeavor and Colcapital.
Previously he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and at the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IDB Invest) in Washington DC.
Alasdair Pitt
Head, Legal and Board Director
Zodia Custody
Alasdair Pitt is the Head, Legal, Zodia Custody and Board Director, Zodia Custody (Ireland) Limited.
Alasdair, first qualified as an English lawyer and then worked as a financial markets/derivatives lawyer with Credit Suisse in London, Tokyo and New York before joining Nikko Salomon Smith Barney in Tokyo initially as a financial markets lawyer then transferring to equity capital markets origination; subsequently reverted to lawyering in Hong Kong heading Standard Chartered Bank’s markets legal team covering Greater China and North Asia. Returned to the UK in 2020 to work as Head of Legal for Zodia Custody, a Standard Chartered Bank subsidiary providing institutional cryptoasset services and serving as a Board Director of Zodia Custody (Ireland) Limited.
John-Patrick Powers
Counsel
Clifford Chance
John-Patrick (JP) Powers has over nine years of experience in the fields of international economic regulation and foreign trade controls. He advises leading financial institutions and trading companies on US sanctions issues and compliance with US sanctions laws and regulations. He has participated in a wide range of US sanctions investigations and enforcement actions as well as designing compliance programs for multinational corporations and financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
Meera Ragha
Senior Associate
Clifford Chance
Meera Ragha is an associate at Clifford Chance LLP, where she advises on UK and EU financial regulation and compliance.
Meera specialises in acting for payment institutions, e-money issuers, banks, merchants, payments platforms and technology companies on a range of payments and FinTech regulation, including PSD2, regulatory reforms relating to cryptocurrencies, and the impact of the financial services regulatory framework in the EU / UK on fintech products.
Meera has undertaken two client secondments at Barclays and the Bank of New York Mellon.
Daniel Roberts
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder
Iris Energy
Prior to co-founding Iris in 2018, Daniel’s professional experience spanned the finance, infrastructure and renewable energy industries and in 2018 exited as 2nd largest individual shareholder in Palisade Investment Partners, an infrastructure funds management business managing A$8 billion in direct infrastructure assets across 23 businesses. Daniel was responsible for Palisade’s origination and investment activities, as well as the management of a number of portfolio assets (incl. serving as a director on the board of Palisade as well as many of Palisade’s investee companies). Prior to joining Palisade, Daniel spent time in M&A advisory, debt structuring and principal investment with Macquarie across both Sydney and London, and with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Sydney office. Daniel holds a Masters of Finance (Dean’s List) from the INSEAD Business School and a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Monica Sah
Partner
Clifford Chance
Monica Sah specialises in financial markets law and regulation.
Previously, she was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and Head of Legal for International Wealth Management (Asia, EMEA and Australia). Monica has extensive experience on advising financial institutions on the full range of legal and regulatory issues, including implementing regulatory reform measures. At the forefront of regulatory change issues for financial institutions, Monica is a leading figure on Brexit and MiFID2 issues from both the buy and sell side and has led the creation of Clifford Chance's Online Counsel Tool and MIFID2 Client Documentation Toolkit.
She regularly speaks on Brexit, regulatory change and asset management developments (including to the Investment Industry Association of Canada, Alternative Investment Management Association and Asset Management Association of China) and is a guest lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London on market infrastructure. She advises AFME's Brexit Repapering Forum and the Association of Global Custodians and is a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee and Scoping Forum on Banking.
Marian Scheele
Senior Counsel
Clifford Chance
Marian Scheele specialises in the financial regulatory and legal aspects of financial institutions, with a focus on Fintechs (incl. banks, payment service providers, crypto and blockchain companies) and asset managers (incl. fund managers and funds). She leads the Fintech Team and co-leads the Funds Team of Clifford Chance Amsterdam. Her expertise includes advising on licensing and registration, governance, structure and organisation and other ongoing license requirements. She is frequently involved in corporate restructurings and M&A transactions including IPOs. She contributes to the implementation of EU financial regulatory law in Dutch national law.
Marian is a member of the Public Affairs Committee of INREV. She is ranked in the leading legal directories such as Chambers and Legal 500.
Lee A. Schneider
General Counsel
Ava Labs
Lee A. Schneider is a financial services and technology lawyer with extensive experience in blockchain. Lee co-hosts the Appetite for Disruption podcast with Troy Paredes and is the contributing editor for the Chambers and Partners Fintech Practice Guide. He co-founded Global Blockchain Convergence and is active with a number of other organizations. Lee serves as General Counsel for Ava Labs and is the father of two wonderful college students. He learns about Japanese art history from his wife. This article is written in his personal capacity and reflects only his personal views and not those of Troy, Chambers, GBC or Ava Labs or its directors, officers or employees or anyone else. His views do not constitute legal, investment, tax or any other type of advice.
Jessica Springsteen
Partner
Clifford Chance
Jessica A. Springsteen is a member of the Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group. She regularly advises sponsors, commercial banks, multilateral organizations, and export credit agencies in all aspects of the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects worldwide, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Jessica is a first generation Peruvian-American and is fully bilingual (English/Spanish).
Natasha de Terán
Author, The Pay Off, How changing the way we pay changes everything
A co-author of The Pay Off: How changing the way changes everything, Natasha works at the intersection between finance, technology, policy and communications. Formerly the head of corporate affairs at SWIFT, she is a member of the Bank of England's CBDC Engagement Forum, a Non-resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Advisory Group on an International Strategy for Cybersecurity and the Global Financial System. Natasha also sits on the UK’s Financial Services Consumer Panel and the Payment Systems Regulator Panel and she previously served on the advisory panel to the Woolard Review of unsecured credit market regulation.
Alexander Tollast
Avocat
Clifford Chance
Alexander is a member of the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice in Clifford Chance's Paris office. He specialises in capital markets and mainly advises issuers and underwriters on securities offerings across a range of jurisdictions, alongside a wider spectrum of financing transactions.
He is a dual-qualified English and French lawyer and also has a particular interest in FinTech and ESG matters
Chris Tse
Founding Director
Cardstack
Chris is a technologist and designer focused on improving the usability of decentralized applications, with the aim of making Web3 available for the masses. In 2014, he founded Cardstack, where he leads a team of open-source contributors to build the collaborative OS for Web3. He previously built the first NFT platform on the Bitcoin blockchain. He also pioneered the use of distributed-ledger technology to create media registries. Chris has more than a decade of experience leading R&D and innovation teams for Fortune 500 companies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
Reuben van Verkum
Partner
Clifford Chance
Reuben van Werkum is an experienced senior corporate lawyer, qualified in both Australia and New Zealand. He specialises in advising clients on M&A and investment transactions with a particular focus on private equity and energy/infrastructure projects. Reuben regularly advises both domestic clients and offshore investors undertaking in-bound investment in Australia.
Reuben's specialist skillset extends to equity capital markets and public M&A transactions. He has represented clients on large IPO transactions and secondary capital raising processes. Reuben has broad corporate advisory experience, which includes: capital restructures, shareholder/JV arrangements, foreign investment approvals, listed company advisory work, funds establishment, and co-investment/equity consortium participation (including in PPP transactions)
Samantha Ward
Partner
Clifford Chance
Samantha Ward has experience in commercial litigation and contentious regulatory work with an emphasis on antitrust/competition litigation, cartel investigations and public/administrative law.
Samantha is also a core member of the firm's Tech Group. She has advised financial institutions and corporate clients on data related risks, including cyber crisis management, and the ICO's enforcement powers.
Samantha is the Africa Practice Leader for Tech
Juan Jiménez Zaballos
Digital Public Policy Director
Santander
Juan Jiménez Zaballos (JJ) works at Digital Public Policy for Santander Group dealing with consultations and positioning of the Bank in front of authorities, institutions and regulatory bodies. He is currently coordinating the positioning and “have your say” for Digital Identity, MiCA, Digital EURO and CBDCs projects.
Simultaneously and complementary to this function, he is taking the role of General Manager of Alastria, the Spanish consortium for impulsing Blockchain and other DLTs usage at a country level, for a limited period of two years of mandate starting by September 2021.
Formerly he was the Head of Financial Industry Transformation within the platforms team. Amongst other responsibilities, he was in charge of building the open banking platform for B2B businesses for the Group worldwide.
Prior to that, Juan took care of CIB Corporate Innovation globally and helped building the open innovation framework for the group, while supporting the build-up of the different innovation centers of excellence, including the blockchain lab for the whole group.
Also held several positions as Chief of staff to the Head of Global Banking and Markets (2013-2014), UK & Switzerland Institutional client’s Banker (2011-2012) and Head of Strategy and business development for European Equities (2009-2011).
Juan joined the Group in 2009 after playing several senior roles in other Iberian global banks (in Caixa Geral de Depósitos as Chief of Staff to the CEO and in BBVA as Risks, Treasury and Capital Markets manager) and other consulting roles (Arthur Andersen).
Juan holds Business Administration Honours degree by UAM and Master in Finance, Treasury, Risks and Capital Markets by IEB Madrid, and PDD in Leadership and Innovation by IE Madrid. Currently is Faculty Professor in IE Law School, CEU IAM and 3 points Blockchain School - Grupo Planeta.
Michael Zimmern
Partner
Control Risks
Michael leads the Forensics practice for Control Risks in EMEA. As a qualified accountant with more than 15 years experience helping organisations respond to regulatory, reputational and financial risks, Michael supports clients with cross-border investigation and compliance matters and has worked alongside Governments, regulators and enforcement agencies.