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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."
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.
Leonard started his career as a lawyer with another global leading law firm and joined the Linklaters Amsterdam office as an Associate in 2016. He was promoted to Managing Associate in 2018.
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Leonard has been seconded to:
Leonard has given a number of presentations to the Foreign Bankers Association on, amongst others, anti-money laundering and enforcement trends in the Netherlands, the use of artificial intelligence by banks, and the sharing of AML information.
Leonard studied at the Leiden University as well as at the Erasmus University and obtained a master’s degree in both notarial law and financial law.
Leonard has completed the Dutch Bar exam and the Law Firm School in 2012 and the Grotius Specialisation Program Securities Law (effectenrecht) in 2015.
Leonard has (co-)authored a number of articles in the Dutch financial regulatory law centred magazine ‘Tijdschrift voor Financieel Recht’, as well as in the ‘Ondernemingsrecht’:
In this article, which is co-authored by Jan-Jouke van der Meer, discusses the European proposal for a digital identity wallet and how this wallet may be used for the remote onboarding of European clients.
This article, which is co-authored by Sander van de Ven, discusses the European Commission's proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Regulation and the focus on credit institutions in this regulation.
This article, which is co-authored by Bas Jennen, discusses the consequences of Brexit for the cross border provision of financial services.
This article, which is co-authored by Sander van de Ven, discusses the requirements financial undertakings should comply with when applying artificial intelligence.
This article, which is co-authored by Leonard van den Ende and Jan-Jouke van der Meer was published in the Dutch Financial Law Review.
In this article, which is co-authored by Jan-Jouke van der Meer, discusses the use of biometrics as part of strong customer authentication under PSD2.