Nigel heads our Financial Services group and is a Partner in our Corporate team.
Nigel specialises in regulatory and transactional FinTech and financial services. His experience includes brokerage, trading, investment research, derivatives and post trade issues across equity, debt, FX, fund, cryptoasset and derivative product lines; Cryptoasset regulation and blockchain projects; payments, E-Money, peer-to-peer lending and crowd-funding; Collective Investment Schemes; and consumer credit and finance.
Nigel has specialist experience in early stage (Seed Funding, Series A) funding for technology firms. He is also an M&A lawyer with sector experience of technology and financial services deals.
Nigel has a specific interest in blockchain, digital assets and crypto currencies. As such, he regularly advises and speaks on blockchain projects, as well as the application of English law and regulation to the selling and issuance of ICOs and advises crypto brokers, payments firms and fund managers.
Nigel’s experience includes drafting and negotiating master purchase and sale agreements for Islamic finance products, including commodity based Murabaha trades and Sukuk bonds, negotiating with a number of Middle Eastern Banks.
Nigel qualified as a lawyer in 1992 with Clifford Chance. Prior to returning to law firm practice in 2015, Nigel spent 20 years as in-house counsel at a series of investment banks and brokerage / FinTech firms, including Nomura, Societe Generale, NatWest Markets and was Head of Legal, EMEA at GFI Group, a leading wholesale broker and markets-based FinTech provider.