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Clifford Chance Offices

MARINA BAY FINANCIAL CENTRE
25TH FLOOR, TOWER 3, 12 MARINA BOULEVARD
SINGAPORE 018982
Singapore
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Paul Landless

Position
Paul Landless is a financial markets lawyer specialising in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia.
Paul has extensive experience in commodities trading and financing, structured trade finance, carbon markets products and exchanges. He regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure.
Also, Paul is one of the leaders of the firm’s Fintech practice and a member of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance Foundation (PRIME) based in the Hague.
Career
Slaughter and May 2002
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2004
Joined Clifford Chance London 2004
Joined Clifford Chance Hong Kong 2006
Admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong 2010
Joined Clifford Chance Singapore 2012
Partner since 2014
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
Clifford Chance LLP‘s regulatory experience is founded upon strategic relationships with a host of central banks, financial regulators, data regulators and enforcement agencies. CBDCs, cross-border marketing and cyber resilience for regulated entities are all areas of activity for the wide-reaching practice. Simon Crown, Kate Scott and Paul Landless head up the team; Crown, in particular, frequently advises clients on the implications of Brexit for cross-border payments. Monica Sah is frequently mandated to advise on the regulation of crypto exchanges and custody under AMLD5. Diego Ballon Ossio works with technology companies and financial institutions on the regulatory aspects of digital asset trading, while Caroline Meinertz’s experience extends to safeguarding obligations under the Payment Services Regulations 2017. Kikun Alo is well placed to advise on matters at the cross-section of fintech and ESG
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
Clifford Chance LLP‘s far-reaching practice encompasses commercial contracts, major outsourcing transactions, tech transformation projects and pan-European securitisations. Payments expert Simon Crown leads the team alongside Kate Scott, a specialist in fintech litigation who is additionally equipped to assist clients with contentious crypto matters, and Paul Landless, who counts DLT uses in financial markets trading and risk management among his practice strengths. Adam Craig is active across a wide range of of public securitisations and private bilateral financings. Cyber incident response planning is a practice strength of Samantha Ward, while Kevin Ingram has wide-ranging expertise in relation to structured debt transactions. Midori Takenaka is a further name to note. André Duminy left to join Kirkland & Ellis in July 2024.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms
- Construction: Foreign firms
- Corporate and M&A: foreign firms
- Energy: foreign firms
- Fintech and financial services regulatory: foreign firms
- International arbitration
- Investment funds: foreign firms
- Labour and employment: foreign firms
- Projects: foreign firms
- Restructuring and insolvency: foreign firms
- TMT: foreign firms