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Amanda Hulme

020 7880 5853 amanda.hulme@addleshawgoddard.com

Work Department

Financial regulation.

Position

Barrister with partner equivalent status at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. Specialises in consumer finance. Advises a wide range of clients on regulatory compliance with the Consumer Credit Act, FSA regulation for banks and mortgage lenders, the Payment Services Directive and consumer protection. Also has extensive experience supporting due diligence on M&A and securitisation transactions. Formerly practised as a barrister with Fred Philpott’s Chambers and spent two and a half years as a senior legal advisor at the Office of Fair Trading, advising on consumer law and consumer credit. Regular speaker at conferences and is ranked as one of the best in the UK in the current edition of ‘Chambers’ Client Guide of the UK Legal Profession’. Clients include Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank and Capital One. Co-author ‘Food Standards: the New Law’ (Jordans 2000).

Career

Trained Inns of Court School of Law (ICSL); called to the Bar 1997; tenant Gough Square Chambers (Chambers of Fred Philpott) 1997-2000, specialising in consumer law, food law, consumer finance and trading standards; consumer lawyer, government legal service working for the Office of Fair Trading 2000-03; lawyer in the financial regulation team, Clifford Chance 2003-04, specialising in retail financial services; lawyer Addleshaw Goddard 2004 to date; partner 2008.

Education

Blythe Bridge High School; University of Kent (1996 LLB Hons English and French Law 2(1)).