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Thomas Donegan
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Work Department
Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory, Financial Restructuring & Insolvency, Investment Funds, Derivatives & Structured Products, Privacy & Data Protection, Financial Services, Private Capital, FinTech, Insurance.
Position
Partner
Career
Thomas Donegan is a partner in the Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory practice. Thomas has a broad financial regulatory practice, advising financial institutions, including banks, brokers, exchanges, clearing houses, fund managers, insurers, corporates and other end-users. His work includes advising on legal and regulatory issues arising in clients’ businesses, structuring, regulatory authorizations and licensing, change of control, compliance policies and procedures, client agreements and terms of business, incident management, investigations, enforcement and financial services disputes work.
Thomas has practiced as a specialist financial regulatory lawyer at Shearman & Sterling for 20 years.
Thomas’ clients have included most of the world’s major banks including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and ZKB, some of the major UK banks. Latin America banks and associations such as Bradesco, Itaú, Banco de Chile, Banco do Brasil and Asobancaria. He also advises market infrastructure providers such as ICE and historically the CME group and Eurex, as well as participants in such markets. His brokerage clients include Oppenheimer and he advises insurers such as Fairfax and Lloyd’s of London participants.
His recent work includes advising clients on dealing with the implementation and impact of the EU/UK regulatory reforms (e.g. EMIR, MiFID II, capital, recovery & resolution, governance, ring-fencing, anti-money laundering issues and shadow banking reforms) and more recently the challenges of Brexit. Thomas was among the team which advised the Abu Dhabi Global Market in the drafting of the laws for its financial centre; he also advises on ADGM and DIFC regulatory matters. He practices contentious regulatory work, recently advising a group of investors who lost their savings to London Capital & Finance plc on securing government compensation and successfully challenging the FCA’s decision on ex gratia compensation.
Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Memberships
Admissions
England and Wales
Education
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
(Leading individuals)London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
(Leading individuals)Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Finance > High yield
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Transport > Rail
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax