Dechert LLP

Financial services and investment management.

Partner. Richard Heffner, an English solicitor and U.S. qualified attorney, advises on UK and U.S. financial services law, drawing on experience gained in-house, in private practice and with UK and U.S. regulators.

Richard's previous experience includes service as general counsel and compliance officer to a leading energy broker and alternative trading systems operator, and as head of compliance and enforcement at a start-up commodities clearing house.

He also served as enforcement counsel and legal team leader at the Financial Services Authority (now the Financial Conduct Authority) and one of its predecessors the Personal Investment Authority, where he handled a wide range of matters involving product providers and financial advisers.

His U.S. experience includes more than five years in private practice concentrating in securities and commodities litigation and arbitration and internships with the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

English

Duke University, B.A., 1982 Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1990