Nathan Willmott
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Work Department
Litigation and dispute resolution: financial services and markets group.
Position
Partner and head of the firm’s commercial dispute resolution group. Specialist in financial services investigations, enforcement actions and financial litigation. Has represented firms and senior management in relation to retail mis-selling, market abuse, insider dealing, financial promotions, split capital investment trusts, contingent commissions, financial reinsurance, conflicts of interest, transaction reporting, systems and controls issues and cases before the Financial Ombudsman Service. Advised the FSA and spent time on secondment there as head of the FSA’s Equitable Life judicial inquiry unit. Pro-bono legal adviser to the Outdoor Swimming Society.
Career
Trained Freshfields, qualified 1997, litigation department 1997-2006, secondment to Sotheby’s legal department 2000-01, secondment to the Financial Services Authority 2002; Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, partner and head of FSA investigations and enforcement 2007 to date. Contributor to ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’, Informa, and ‘Financial services: Investigations and Enforcement’, Tottell.
Member
Financial Services Lawyers Association; Law Society; International Bar Association.
Education
King’s School, Worcester; Exeter University (1994 LLB Hons); College of Law, Chester (1995 LPC – distinction); Nottingham Trent University (2002 LLM in advanced litigation – distinction).
Leisure
Swimming, diving, triathlon.
Practice Areas
Financial services; Litigation - banking; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance
