Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)(Chair)
E-mail: sarah.smith@bakermckenzie.com
Edward Fife (Slaughter and May) (Joint Vice-Chair)
Emma Giddings (Norton Rose Fulbright LLP) (Joint Vice-Chair)
Penny Angell (Hogan Lovells International LLP)
James Bresslaw (Simmons and Simmons LLP)
Matt Dunn (Clifford Chance LLP)
David Ereira (Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP)
Mark Evans (Travers Smith LLP)
Jake Jackaman (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP)
Flora McLean (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)
Simon Roberts (Allen & Overy LLP)
Jeremy Stokeld (Linklaters LLP)
Nick Swiss (Eversheds LLP)
Nigel Ward (Ashurst LLP)
Presley Warner (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)
Secretary: Vicky Salmon (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
E-mail – victoria.salmon@bakermckenzie.com
Financial Law Committee Working Parties & Members
The Committee’s current standing working parties are set out below. Other ad hoc working parties are formed from time to time to consider specific topics or issues.
Intermediated Securities
Joint working party of Financial, Company and Regulatory Law Committees
Dorothy Livingston (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP) (Chair Working Group)
David Pudge (Clifford Chance LLP) (Chair Company Law Committee)
Karen Anderson (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP) (Chair Regulatory Law Committee)
Sam Bagot (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP)
Peter Bateman (Slaughter & May)
James Bresslaw (Simmons & Simmons LLP)
David Ereira (Paul Hastings (Europe) LLP)
Mark Evans (Travers Smith LLP)
Lucy Fergusson (Linklaters LLP)
Vanessa Knapp (Independent)
Jennifer Marshall (Allen & Overy LLP) (Chair Insolvency Committee)
Hannah Meakin (Norton Rose Fulbright LLP)
Caroline Meinertz (Clifford Chance LLP)
Guy Morton (Independent, formerly Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)
Mark Simpson (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
Martin Webster (Pinsent Masons LLP)
Victoria Younghusband (Charles Russell Speechlys)
Financial Collateral Directive (To be reconstituted)
Mark Evans (Travers Smith LLP)
International Law Issues (Rome 1 and Rome 2 Regulation and Brussels Regulation) post Brexit implementation
Dorothy Livingston (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP) (Chair)
Professor Andrew Dickinson (Clifford Chance LLP)
Mark Evans (Travers Smith LLP)
Tolek Petch (Slaughter and May)
Guy Morton (Independent, formerly Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)
Vanessa Knapp (Independent, formerly Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)
Insolvency
David Ereira (Paul Hasting (Europe) LLP)(Chair)
Nigel Ward (Ashurst LLP)
Penny Angell (Hogan Lovells International LLP)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
Opinions
Geoffrey Yeowart (Hogan Lovells International LLP)(Chair)
Charles Clark (Linklaters LLP)
Kate Gibbons (Clifford Chance LLP)
Simon Roberts (Allen & Overy LLP)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
Execution of Documents/Electronic Signatures
Nigel Ward (Ashurst LLP)(Chair)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
Nick Swiss (Eversheds LLP)
Jeremy Stokeld (Linklaters LLP)
Emma Giddings (Norton Rose Fulbright LLP)
Note: the Committee was part of a joint working group with the Law Society and CLLS Company Law Committees which considered issues relating to electronic signatures which reported in 2016.
The three Committees published an update of that paper in 2022.
National Security and Investment Act 2021
A joint committee with the CLLS Insolvency, Regulatory and Company Law Committees
Dorothy Livingston (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP)(Chair)
Penny Angell (Hogan Lovells LLP)
Jennifer Marshall (Allen & Overy LLP, Chair Insolvency Law Committee)
Karen Anderson (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Chair Regulatory Law Committee)
David Pudge (Clifford Chance LLP, Chair Company Law Committee)
Fiona Fitzgerald (Allen & Overy LLP)
Emily Barry (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP)
Susan Whitehead (Hogan Lovells LLP)
Deborah Neale (Clifford Chance LLP)
Matt Dunn (Clifford Chance LLP)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)(Chair Financial Law Committee)
Digital Assets
A joint committee with the Regulatory and Company Law Committees
Dorothy Livingston (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP) (Chair)
David Pudge (Clifford Chance LLP) (Chair of the Company Law Committee)
Karen Anderson (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP) (Chair of the Regulatory Law Committee)
Lucy Fergusson (Linklaters LLP) (Company Law Committee)
Vanessa Knapp (Company Law Committee)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP) (Chair of the Financial Law Committee)
Mark Evans (Travers Smith LLP) (Financial Law Committee)
Prospectus Legislation Reform
Edward Fife (Slaughter and May) (Chair)
Sarah Smith (Baker & McKenzie LLP)
James Bresslaw (Simmons & Simmons LLP)
Fiona Fitzgerald (Allen & Overy LLP)