Etelka Bogardi > Norton Rose Fulbright > Hong Kong, Hong Kong > Lawyer Profile

With demonstrable experience in the financial services, fintech, retail, leisure, and transportation sectors, Norton Rose Fulbright‘s technology and innovation team is active across a broad spectrum of TMT work, spanning technology agreements, outsourcing transactions, cryptocurrency regulation, DeFi products and internet regulatory issues. Practice head Anna Gamvros is a key figure behind the firm’s recognised expertise in cyber breach response and compliance. Gamvros frequently works alongside fintech expert Etelka Bogardi, who is well-versed in the regulatory challenges faced by digital asset exchanges and wider blockchain projects. US and Hong Kong-qualified lawyer Harold Tin is frequently involved in equity and debt capital markets transactions, while Ruby Kwok and Edward Yau further boast the practice’s expertise in data protection.

Acting on its own, as well as often working alongside practitioners in Singapore and Shanghai, Norton Rose Fulbright‘s ‘very knowledgeable’ Hong Kong team provides ‘practical and commercial advice’ to banks, broker-dealers, asset management firms, and fintech entities across a broad swathe of their regulatory requirements associated with their products and services. Team head Etelka Bogardi, who splits her time between Hong Kong and Singapore, is ‘incredibly knowledgeable’ across the regulatory landscape, including on fintech matters, and also benefits from an ‘insider’s perspective’ gained as a result of her previous role as senior counsel at the HKMA.

With particular strength in regulatory advice, Norton Rose Fulbright‘s fintech practice blends expertise in P2P platforms, blockchain, data privacy, disputes and technology consultation. The team frequently assists major clients with fintech expansions and has seen an increase in instructions relating to emerging platforms and the use of disruptive technologies, particularly for clients who wish to launch new products in Singapore before rolling them out globally. Practice head Etelka Bogardi has longstanding experience of advising on a wide array of regulatory issues in the fintech area; she is well placed to advise on the regulation of digital assets and innovative payments solutions. Anna Tipping‘s wealth of insurance expertise is frequently brought to bear on contentious and non-contentious matters including alternative risk transfer insurance transactions. Instructions relating to securities often fall to financial markets expert Colin Rice, while Craig Loveless is a key contact for cross-border transactional work in the fintech space. Wilson Ang is a name to note for disputes, while counsel Mabelle Tay further extends the regulatory expertise at the firm.