Overview
Harry leads the Linklaters financial regulation practice in London. He regularly advises banks, broker-dealers, investment managers and other financial institutions on all issues relating to their regulated status. Harry assists firms with all of their day-to-day regulatory issues, including getting them authorised, undertaking regulatory implementation projects (such as MiFID II or Brexit) or internal investigations.
Harry has leveraged his regulatory and market expertise throughout his career to become a fintech and payments expert. As Global Co-Head of Fintech at Linklaters, Harry advises on a wide range of innovative business models, from payment services and electronic money through to cryptoassets, tokenised structures and novel payment systems.
Harry is a market-leading expert on clearing platforms, advising both banks and central clearing counterparties (CCPs) on several projects involving the structure of clearing arrangements across a wide range of product types, including credit default swaps (CDSs), IRS, commodities and foreign exchange (FX) products.
Harry has extensive experience in areas of FCA regulation as they apply to private equity and corporate mandates, assisting clients in undertaking regulatory due diligence and advising sponsors on M&A in the financial services sector.
Harry spent more than four years with a major investment bank, covering equity derivatives, advising on the structuring and distribution of derivative products. This experience gave Harry a deep understanding of complex financial instruments and has shaped his ability to advise on the risks in carrying on business within a complex regulatory environment.
Experience
Harry has an extensive financial regulatory practice. The breadth of his practice includes advising, among others:
- Fnality: advising a firm founded by a consortium of leading financial institutions on a project to establish a new global wholesale payment system based on blockchain technology.
- Investment banks: advising on how MiFID II impacts the day-to-day operations of investment bank clients.
- Nasdaq: advising on the sale of Nasdaq’s commodities exchange and clearing business to Euronext.
- Credit Institution: advising on the establishment of a new credit institution.
- Contentious: undertaking an investigation into potential malpractice in investment management practices for an established investment manager.
- Network International: advising on the purchase of Network International by Brookfield, a transaction involving the purchase of a payment services firm based in multiple jurisdictions in the Middle East and Africa.
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