Guy Wilkes > Mishcon de Reya LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Mishcon de Reya LLP Offices

AFRICA HOUSE
70 KINGSWAY
LONDON
WC2B 6AH
England
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Guy Wilkes

Work Department
Finance and Banking
Career
Guy specialises in regulatory disputes, particularly involving financial and professional services and has been involved in some of the FCA and PRA’s highest profile investigations against both individuals and institutions. He was formerly a member of the FCA’s senior leadership team and had responsibility for developing enforcement strategy, especially in relation to financial crime and anti-money laundering where he chaired the cross-divisional working group. While at the FCA, Guy set up and ran an internal expert group for investigations against senior individuals and also chaired the FCA’s insolvency expert group.
Guy also conducts and advises clients on internal investigations, including those involving directors and senior managers.
His regulatory experience involves a wide range of matters including anti-money laundering and anti-bribery controls, listings rule breaches, conflicts of interest, suitability of investment advice, treatment of customers, client asset rules, market misconduct, competition law and personal culpability of individuals.
Guy’s court experience is extensive and includes civil litigation before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in cases involving regulatory disputes, fraud, asset tracing, insolvency and commercial disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
(Leading partners)Mishcon de Reya LLP has ‘built up a well-deserved reputation for high-quality advice’ on behalf of senior individuals at wholesale and retail financial services firms and is regularly called upon to represent them in matters of the utmost importance. Many of these relate to allegations of market abuse, with the firm noted for its robust representation and willingness to take on the FCA, progressing matters before the key decision makers. Adam Epstein heads the practice and is described by clients as a ‘doyen of the financial services’ market. Guy Wilkes has a ‘good understanding of the regulator’, having previously headed a department within FCA enforcement; he uses this insight to good effect for individuals and entities, including as it relates to alleged AML infractions. Senior associate Elizabeth Hope ‘knows the industry well’ and has niche expertise handling cases at the intersection between employment law and the FCA rules.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Financial services: contentious London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Private client > Family
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Private prosecutions
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Employment > Health and safety
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Private client > Agriculture and estates