Mr Amin Bell > Harvest Advokatbyrå > Stockholm, Sweden > Lawyer Profile

Harvest Advokatbyrå
Engelbrektsplan 1
Box 7225
Stockholm
103 89
Sweden
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Work Department

FinTech, Banking and Finance

Position

Partner 

Amin Bell is specialized in financial regulation, especially in the areas of payment services, credits, securities, asset management as well as AML. Amin has been active within the field since 2007 and frequently represents financial institutions which are supervised by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Sw. Finansinspektionen), such as payment institutions, credit institutions, investment firms and fund managers in matters relating to regulatory compliance.

In his daily work, Amin provides advice in a variety of matters relating to authorizations with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and in various implementation projects as well as corporate and contract law issues. Amin has participated in a number of projects implementing new legislation, such as MiFID 2, AIFMD, PSD/PSD 2 and AMLD 4.

Amin has held the position as compliance officer at numerous companies in the aforementioned categories.

Career

Harvest Advokatbyrå, Partner, 2016-

Magnusson Advokatbyrå, Partner, 2015-2016

Magnusson Advokatbyrå, Senior Associate, 2013-2015

Söderberg & Partners, Legal counsel (secondment), 2011

Hökerberg & Söderqvist Advokatbyrå, Associate/Senior Associate, 2009-2013

Kaputhing Bank, Regulatory Projects/Compliance, 2007-2008

Languages

Swedish and English

Memberships

Member of the Swedish Bar Association since 2012

Participant in the Regulatory/Compliance working group at Swedish FinTech Association (SweFinTech), 2020-

Secretary of the Swedish Anti-Money Laundring Institute, SIMPT, 2014-2019

Expert of the panel for quality and education of InsureSec, 2017-2018

Education

LL.M., Uppsala University, Sweden, 2008

Droit des Affairs, Université Montpellier I, France, 2007

Lawyer Rankings

Sweden > Fintech

Harvest Advokatbyrå’s fintech team advises on a wide range of regulatory matters, including compliance issues, internal audits, licence application procedures, AML matters, and sustainability work, advising payment institutions, banks, fund managers, credit providers, and crypto-asset service providers. Co-founder Amin Bell leads the team alongside co-founder Anna Cumzelius; the pair have considerable combined financial regulatory experience. Niklas Sinander, who was formerly head of the financial regulation practice at Cirio Advokatbyrå AB, joined the firm in January 2023.