Simon Morris
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Work Department
Financial services.
Position
Simon is a partner in the financial services group. Since qualifying Simon has acted for financial institutions – banks, insurers, brokers and fund managers – advising on regulatory and commercial matters. His work includes establishing financial institutions in the United Kingdom and advising on financial sector acquisitions and disposals; working on novel products and distribution structures;and advising firms on meeting FSA’s regulatory requirements. Hehas represented firms in nearly 200 enforcement, investigationand disciplinary case, ranging from market abuse and money laundering to handling of conflicts and retail misselling broughtby FSA and its predecessors.
Career
Articled Cameron Markby Hewitt; qualified 1982; partner 1988; publications: ‘Financial Services: Regulating Investment Business’ (FT Publications; first edition 1989, third edition forthcoming); contributor to ‘The Leviathan is still at large’ (Centre for Policy Studies). He was an adviser to the Conservative Oppostition 1999-2000 during the passage of the Financial Services and Markets Bill through the House of Commons and Lords, reviewing government drafts and preparing amendments and speaking notes for the Opposition spokesmen. Simon was named as Complinet ‘Regulatory Lawyer of the Year’ in January 2008.
Member
Regulatory Law Committee, City of London Law Society. Former member of FSA’s With Profits Working Group, Application Process Design Group, Disciplinary Consultative Committee and MiFID Lawyers’ Advisory Group.
Education
Whitgift School; Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (1979 BA); Birkbeck College, London (2005 PhD).
Leisure
Modern history.
Practice Areas
Financial services; Insurance (non-contentious); Investment funds
