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Speechly Bircham LLP

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Work 020 7427 6400
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Jonathan Bayliss

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Speechly Bircham LLP

Work Department

Financial services.

Position

Jonathan covers a wide range of financial services regulatory and advisory work, with a particular focus on advising clients in the wealth management and private banking sectors. His experience includes market-leading advice on product work for private banks, acting on the structuring and legal aspects of collective investment schemes, both authorised and unauthorised, particularly in the charity sector. Jonathan’s regulatory practice covers the range of UK and EU regulatory issues faced by FSA-regulated businesses, including MiFID, financial promotions, insurance and mortgage regulation and conduct of business rules generally. Jonathan has also acted in many transactions involving financial services clients. He is described in ‘Chambers 2010’ as having a ‘realistic and measured approach’ and is commended for ‘the efforts he takes to understand his clients’ business’.

Career

Called to the Bar 1982; admitted as solicitor 1988; senior partner, financial services team, Farrer & Co; partner Speechly Bircham 2010.

Education

Balliol College, Oxford (Jurisprudence).

Practice Areas

Financial services

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