Overview
Peter is Global Chair of Linklaters’ Financial Regulation Group and is a partner based in the London office.
Peter has developed close working relationships with the firm’s banking and investment management clients. His practice includes all aspects of financial markets regulatory advice for broker-dealers and investment banks. Peter advises investment managers, private banks, hedge funds and private equity funds on regulatory issues affecting them. He also advises clients on regulatory investigations into areas such as market conduct, client money compliance and transaction reporting failures.
Peter has particular experience of new product development and marketing, trading issues such as market abuse and regulatory structuring advice.
Earlier in his career, Peter was seconded to both Bankers Trust and Nomura, advising and assisting with the establishment of their respective securities financing businesses.
Experience
Peter has developed a wide ranging financial regulatory practice. The breadth of his practice includes advising on, amongst others:
- Regulatory change and strategy: advising numerous banks, investment firms, payment firms, proprietary traders and market infrastructure providers on the design and implementation of regulatory reform initiatives, including sustainable finance and ESG regulation, post Brexit changes in the UK and EU, IFPR, MiFID II, the FCA consumer duty, operational resilience, crypto and digital asset regimes and emerging frameworks for data, technology and artificial intelligence.
- New products, platforms and structures: advising on the creation, structuring and governance of trading, clearing and settlement platforms (including internal crossing systems and new market entrants in the fintech and digital asset sectors), as well as new product development and distribution, including structured products, derivatives and digital and tokenised instruments.
- Cross border and multi regulator frameworks: advising international banks, investment firms, asset managers and financial market infrastructure on their UK and European regulatory structures and on managing divergent regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions. This includes supporting clients in responding to evolving European requirements (such as the ECB desk mapping review and CRD 6) while maintaining holistic global legal and compliance frameworks.
- Contentious and supervisory regulatory matters: advising clients on regulatory investigations and supervisory engagement, including skilled person reports, enforcement division investigations, supervisory reviews, past business reviews, client asset and client money issues, market conduct and transaction reporting failures, systems and controls and matters involving senior managers and fitness and propriety.
- Financial sector corporate and restructuring activity: advising on internal structural reorganisations of banking and investment firm groups, acquisitions and disposals of regulated businesses (including by private equity and other financial sponsors), change of control and authorisation processes and special administrations and resolution planning for investment firms and other regulated entities.
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