Simmons & Simmons

Financial services.

Craig specialises in financial services law and regulation, with a focus on investments. Clients include asset managers, insurers, pension schemes and major corporates.

Craig is a partner in our Financial Services group in London. He specialises in the contractual architecture supporting transactions for the world’s largest investors.

He regularly advises firms on the terms of their investments in the international financial markets. These include SFTs (including repos and stock loans), futures, OTC derivatives and open/closed ended fund investments.

His experience includes advising on segregated mandates (IMAs/TMAs), product distribution, custody, prime brokerage and UCITS eligible assets.

He is a leader in global benchmark reform (including LIBOR), helping clients develop and implement their IBOR transition plans, including through machine learning and AI.

Craig is an expert in financial markets regulation, including EMIR, SFTR and MiFID2. He has advised a number of clients on VM and IM documentation.

He regularly co-ordinates cross-border netting and collateral projects and developed our innovative Netting + Collateral Reviewer product.

As UK Knowledge Partner, he is responsible for co-ordinating our Knowledge function and further developing our knowledge strategy.

Craig joined Simmons & Simmons as a managing associate in the financial services group in May 2011 from a large City law firm and was promoted to partner in May 2014. He has secondment experience, having worked for six months as derivatives counsel at one of the leading fund management groups in the UK. He qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and is based in our London office. He is a member of a number of the ISDA Committees.

Law Society.

Victoria College, Jersey; Exeter University (2:1 LLB (Hons)).

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