Brian McDonnell is recognised for providing practical advice to a wide range of financial services firms. He has over 20 years of experience, 12 years as a UK City law firm partner most recently as head of Financial Markets at Addleshaw Goddard. He is ranked by Chambers as a leading individual (Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory).
He has in-depth industry knowledge, and has spent time as regulatory counsel at the London Stock Exchange and on secondment to Bank of America Merril Lynch as the lawyer supporting MiFID implementation.
Brian sits on the City of London Law Society Regulatory Law Committee; and the Lexis Financial Services Consulting Editorial Board. He is the UK legal advisor to the Association of International Life Offices; and is the author of Thomson Reuter’s A Practitioner’s Guide to Inside Information (2nd edition).
We are a specialist UK financial services law firm. We draw on over 40 years of experience working with a wide range of firms from the largest banks and asset managers to smaller fintechs and payments firms. This experience means that we understand financial services and can share practical solutions that we have seen work before as well as develop new legal approaches.
As financial services is all we do, it is important that we do it very well. We closely follow regulatory developments, engage with industry working groups, and are involved in responding to the FCA and the PRA on key regulatory consultation papers. Regulatory change is a constant. As a financial services law firm, we work closely with our clients on horizon-scanning and preparing for up-coming regulatory challenges – or opportunities.
We regularly collaborate with other law firms including recently:
• acting as regulatory counsel on an IPO of an investment company. We supported an international law firm who were acting for the Company and we advised, inter alia, on structure and drafting / reviewing investment advisory / AIFM agreements;
• working on various due diligence projects as part of M&A transactions involving FS firms; and
• advising on a wide range of Fintech regulatory matters including various crypto projects.
All your work is done by a specialist senior lawyer and is not handed down to junior associates – ensuring excellence, efficiency and responsiveness.
England ,
United Kingdom
