Consultancy in legal and compliance in banking, origination, sales and trading, derivatives, private equity, funds, and Islamic finance

Legal and compliance cover for banks and financial firms for short term and fixed needs

 

Sometimes a need arises for extra resource to cover a short term or fixed need.   This situation can arise for many reasons such as unforeseen staff movements, statutory leave, internal changes and external events.

 

In case of such need, please consider me as an additional resource available to you complimenting, or supplanting, reliance on external counsel or your usual temporary staff provider.   The emphasis is on service quality and continually exceeding client expectations resulting in a superior client experience versus an agency contractor or law firm secondee.

 

As an experienced in house legal and compliance officer, I know what you expect to receive and will listen to you carefully to ensure your instructions are understood and carried out effectively and in time.

 

 

Here is a selection of areas where I can be of help and add value:

 

High level

• General counsel- an independent, third party opinion

• Help with ad hoc projects and critical situations

• Special operations

• Dispute resolution

• Management of external law firms on large scale mandates

• Assisting in recruitment

• Managing change

• Establishing the primacy of a Compliance culture at Board level

• Audit of Compliance function

 

Major transactions

• Corporate structuring considering jurisdiction and taxation

• Joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, co-investments and asset purchase and sales

• Structuring of banking facilities and other credit

• Undertaking due diligence

• Negotiation of external law firms and fees

 

Transactional or vanilla and daily operations

• Providing general 'plug in' legal support to cover specific short term or fixed needs or in daily operations

• Preparing and negotiating market documentation relating to financial products including derivatives, repurchase and stock lending transactions, netting and collateral

• Other ad hoc agreements and documents and arrangements

• Company Secretarial including Board Minutes 

• Standardizing contracts and documents