Michael is head of the global financial services practice and has extensive financial services and regulatory experience.
He regularly advises banks, investment banks, securities houses and market infrastructure providers, as well as central banks, regulatory authorities and market associations on both domestic and European financial services and regulatory issues.
Michael advises on prudential issues including group structure, capital and liquidity, governance and resolution planning and on conduct issues. He is advising a number of leading financial institutions on the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Michael advised the Bank of England throughout the banking crisis, including on its Special Liquidity Scheme (for which his team won the 2009 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award for Legal Innovation in the Credit Crisis and the Downturn), the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bradford & Bingley and the Icelandic banks, and the recapitalisation of UK banks.
Michael is also one of the co-ordinating partners for our recovery and resolution planning (RRP) initiative, and so is currently advising a number of global systemically important financial institutions on their RRPs.
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- Advising a number of leading financial institutions on the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
- Advising the Bank of England on a range of matters including the Term Funding Scheme and corporate bond purchase operations put in place as a response to the outcome of the EU referendum.
- Advising a number of global systemically important financial institutions on resolution planning.
- Advising leading global banks on regulatory implementation projects including MiFID 2, the UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime and the Market Abuse Regulation.
- Advising on various corporate transactions involving financial institutions
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Education
- King’s College, London (LLB (Hons), AKC)
Professional qualifications
- Solicitor of the UK Supreme Court (admitted in 1994)
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