Financial Institutions

Azad Ali leads Skadden’s U.K. and EU financial services regulation practice, which covers a wide spectrum of sectors including banking, investment banking, market infrastructure, fintech, asset management, insurance and regulated businesses generally in the London and European markets.

In the banking sector, Mr. Ali advises on all aspects of bank capital and prudential matters, bank resolution (BRRD, Banking Act) and structural reform and reorganizations (ring-fencing, subsidiarisation), governance, remuneration, systems and controls, and various conduct of business issues.

In relation to financial markets, Mr. Ali advises both sell-side and buy-side institutions on derivatives and securities financing regulation including EMIR, MiFID II, Benchmarks Regulation/IBOR reform and market abuse. His capital markets experience covers regulatory capital issuances, securitisation and structured finance as well as debt and equity issuances generally.

Mr. Ali also has extensive experience acting for exchange and clearing groups and other market infrastructure providers in relation to M&A activity as well as advisory work across all aspects of their businesses.

Mr. Ali’s experience in the fintech area extends to blockchain/DLT applications, cryptoassets and exchanges, payment services/e-money, peer-to-peer lending, and other artificial intelligence and machine learning businesses.

Of Counsel

B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1998 Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law, 1996 M.A., University of Oxford, 1995