Tamasin Little
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Work Department
Financial services.
Position
Partner in the financial services group, specialising in financial markets and regulatory matters, including structuring financial products and advising financial services firms. Current areas of work include advising banks, brokers, fund managers, private equity firms, investment exchanges, insurance companies and other investment businesses on authorisation and ongoing requirements, buy-outs, group structuring, regulatory capital, funds, derivatives, Internet and e-commerce developments, cross-border business, market abuse, agreements with customers and service providers (including clearing and custody), implementing the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive regime and advising on the effect of UK and EU regulation.
Career
Articled Stephenson Harwood 1983-85; solicitor Stephenson Harwood 1985-87; solicitor Malleson Stephen Jacques, Sydney 1987-89; manager in funds and financial services group, Stephenson Harwood 1989-91; legal associate seconded to the Bank of England’s Legal Risk Review Committee 1991-92; partner Stephenson Harwood 1992; partner SJ Berwin & Co 1996. Author of ‘Financial Promotion’ (City and Financial); co-editor of ‘Bond Markets; Law and Regulation’ (Sweet & Maxwell) and contributor to ‘Swaps and Off-Exchange Derivatives Trading’ (FT Law & Tax); ‘Issues in Derivative Instruments’ (Kluwer); ‘Use of Research Reports by Brokers and Analysts in Connection with Public Offerings’ (EASD); ‘Practitioners Guide to the FSA Handbook (City & Financial); ‘Butterworths’ Financial Services Law Guide’ (Butterworths).
Member
City of London Law Society Regulatory Committee.
Education
St Anne’s College, Oxford (BA); London School of Economics (LLM).
