Regulatory & Risk Advisory

Walkers' regulatory and risk advisory team offers Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Irish and Jersey law advice on regulatory matters on a global basis. Our team comprises dedicated specialist financial regulatory and risk management advisory lawyers. We bring insight obtained from having worked inside various national regulators, including the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission, the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Central Bank of Ireland, and as in-house global financial institution regulatory counsel as well as in international private practice.

Our team regularly advises non-regulated and regulated financial institutions including a wide range of businesses in the banking, insurance and reinsurance, investment fund, administrator, fiduciary and investment management, advice, broker-dealer and arranger sectors, including:

  • all regulatory applications and notifications, including new licences, variations or cancellations of existing licences and others
  • regulatory implications of mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations, including obtaining regulatory approval for changes of ownership or control
  • all day-to-day regulatory compliance matters
  • all required policies, procedures and compliance monitoring programmes
  • regulatory gap analysis and audits
  • preparing for regulatory inspections 
  • anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, including delegation, reliance on third parties and designation of compliance and money laundering reporting officers
  • international sanctions
  • anti-bribery and corruption
  • market abuse and insider dealing
  • corporate governance and directors' duties, fitness and propriety
  • outsourcing
  • business continuity
  • regulatory capital and reporting, segregation of assets
  • regulatory strategy and developments, including extra-territorial impact of foreign regulation
  • regulatory aspects of transactional documentations and service provider agreements
  • marketing of investment products and services
  • data protection, including GDPR and local legislation
  • economic substance
  • FATCA, CRS and and Country-By-Country Reporting
  • beneficial ownership
  • internal and regulatory investigations

Our team also offers significant experience of advising on a wide range of fintech matters, including fintech closed ended and open ended investment strategies, coin and token offerings, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and, payments, outsourcing to fintech providers (including cloud data storage) and assisting numerous types of fintech businesses.

 


BERMUDA
Natalie NetoPartnerT +1 441 242 1533natalie.neto@walkersglobal.com

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
Lucy FrewPartnerT +1 345 814 4676lucy.frew@walkersglobal.com
Iona WrightSenior CounselT +1 284 852 2233iona.wright@walkersglobal.com

CAYMAN ISLANDS
Lucy FrewPartnerT +1 345 814 4676lucy.frew@walkersglobal.com
Andrew HowarthPartnerT +1 345 814 4561andrew.howarth@walkersglobal.com
Ian MasonPartnerT +1 345 814 4600ian.mason@walkersglobal.com
Juliana TangSenior CounselT +1 345 814 4612juliana.tang@walkersglobal.com

GUERNSEY
Matt SandersManaging PartnerT +44 (0) 1481 748 914matt.sanders@walkersglobal.com
Chris Hutley-HurstPartnerT +44 (0) 1481 758 950chris.hutley-hurst@walkersglobal.com
Jamie BooklessSenior CounselT +44 1481 748 926jamie.bookless@walkersglobal.com

HONG KONG
Colm DawsonPartnerT +852 2596 3357colm.dawson@walkersglobal.com
Jason HungCounselT +852 2596 3355jason.hung@walkersglobal.com

IRELAND
Niall Esler PartnerT +353 1 863 8517 niall.esler@walkersglobal.com
Shane MartinPartnerT +353 1 470 6673shane.martin@walkersglobal.com
Conor DalySenior AssociateT +353 1 470 6684conor.daly@walkersglobal.com

JERSEY
Dilmun LeachGroup Partner*T +44 (0) 1534 700 783dilmun.leach@walkersglobal.com
Tom FothergillSenior CounselT +44 (0) 1534 700 724tom.fothergill@walkersglobal.com
Sian LangleySenior CounselT +44 (0) 1534 700 774sian.langley@walkersglobal.com

LONDON
Sara HallPartnerT +44 (0)20 7220 4975sara.hall@walkersglobal.com
Benjamin TwidleSenior CounselT +44 (0)20 7398 4999benjamin.twidle@walkersglobal.com

SINGAPORE
Marco LamCounselT +65 6603 1667marco.lam@walkersglobal.com
Simone Burnett LanauzeSenior AssociateT +65 6603 1695simone.lanauze@walkersglobal.com

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