Neil is a Senior Lawyer (Technical Specialist) working in the General Counsel’s Division of the Financial Conduct Authority, where he is currently on secondment managing a team in the FCA’s Innovate Department.
Neil‘s areas of legal focus were most recently the reform of UK’s prospectus and public offer regime, short selling, the listings regime, market abuse and the future regulatory framework.
Prior to that Neil’s focus was EU Exit and International matters, including delivering the FCA’s onshoring work and temporary permissions regimes, as well as contributing to the FCA’s input into post-EU Exit international free trade agreements.
Neil was previously seconded to the Department for Exiting the European Union where he managed a team heading up the Financial Services Desk of the Policy and Delivery Coordination Directorate, and where he was also responsible for cross-cutting and cross sectoral policy work relating to UK regulators generally.
More broadly, Neil has wide experience advising on regulatory matters across the UK and EU financial services spectrum, including perimeter issues, changes of control, authorisations, payment services and e-money, fintech, passporting, the AIFMD/UCITS, MiFID II, financial crime, competition law, data protection, and the supervision of internationally active and systemically important financial institutions.
Neil is passionate about diversity and inclusion. He was a founder co-chair of the FCA’s Social Mobility Network, where he sat on the FCA’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. Neil also has experience as a charity trustee and school governor.
Neil qualified into structured finance at a top 20 City law firm.