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"I specialise in financial regulation, with a strong focus on investment firms, investment funds and credit institutions. Due to my extensive experience, I can readily identify and advise on issues relevant to my clients."
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Overview
Leonard is a managing associate in the Financial Regulatory practice in Amsterdam, and is notably involved in advising inter alia AIFMs, investment firms, banks, financial services providers and payment institutions. He advises on all aspects of financial regulatory law, with a particular focus on market access and anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing regulations. He assisted multiple clients in the applications of a licence with the Authority for the Financial Markets or the Dutch Central Bank and a number of declarations of no objection with the Dutch Central Bank.
In 2020, Leonard went on a client secondment for 4 months at ING’s DBNL investments department.
Work Highlights
- A UK investment firm: advising on and assisting in the application for a licence in the Netherlands post-Brexit.
- An AIFM: advising on and assisting in the application for a licence as an AIFM.
- A Dutch operator of a trading platform: advising on and assisting in the application for a licence as an operator of a multilateral trading platform.
- An international banking group: advising on and assisting in the application for a licence as an e-money issuer / payment institution.