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.
“Benefiting from former in-house experience within the brokerage industry, Nigel Brahams is ‘excellent at identifying the key issues that are relevant’ to clients in that space” – Legal 500
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.
“Benefiting from former in-house experience within the brokerage industry, Nigel Brahams is ‘excellent at identifying the key issues that are relevant’ to clients in that space” – Legal 500
Work highlights
- Advising a central Europe-based client building a platform offering access to artificial-intelligence powered crypto currency trading tools, on UK regulation regarding ICOs and token sales.
- Advising a Japanese based client on the legal and regulatory aspects in regards to raising funds via an initial coin offering (ICO) for its Stablecoin project.
- Advising on the sale of Language Connect, a translation technology business, to one of the largest UK-based e-commerce organisations.
- Advising on the sale of GlobaLexicon, a translation technology business to a Japanese conglomerate.
- Advising on the investment into a digital identity company by a venture capital fund.
- Advising on the investment into a leading AML provider in the crypto space by a venture capital fund.
- Advising a leading real estate research provider on a range of regulatory and commercial issues.
- Advising several individuals on issues relating to the Senior Managers Regime and also on personal regulatory issues.
- Advising Tokenise Stock Exchange on its acquisition by social network, Vero.
- Advising a leading higher education provider on the Higher Education Act.
- Advising a financial research provider on regulatory issues of offering investment research.
- Advising Goldreel on their project to issue NFTs representing new music.
- Advising on the ‘Series A’ funding of a company operating a cross-channel platform for secure authentication and information exchange for the banking, government, healthcare, e-commerce sectors.
Qualification date: 1992
