Ms Helen Marshall > Akin > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Helen Marshall
Work Department
Partner; Financial Regulatory
Position
Helen Marshall is a partner in Akin’s financial regulatory group. She has over 25 years of experience advising on UK financial regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). She provides assistance to her clients in a number of areas, including FCA and PRA compliance issues, authorisations and approvals, information requests, FCA thematic reviews, FCA investigations and enforcement, Regulatory Decisions Committee hearings and Upper Tribunal hearings. Helen helps clients to implement effective strategies to meet regulatory requirements and anticipate future obligations. She also assists clients in forging a positive and cooperative relationship with the relevant regulator to ensure they are well-positioned to engage with the FCA and/or the PRA. Helen was a Former Head of Enforcement at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and has an excellent knowledge of the UK regulatory system.
To learn more about Ms Marshall, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/helen-marshall.html
Education
L.P.C., Manchester Polytechnic, 1985; B.A., University of Leicester, 1983.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
(Hall of Fame)The ‘nimble and astute’ team at Akin works on its own and often alongside its US-based colleagues to provide ‘sensible, commercial solutions’ to banks and funds across a range of purely domestic and cross-border contentious financial services matters. ‘Hardworking’ team head Helen Marshall
provides ‘user-friendly advice’ and is noted, in particular, for her robust defence of asset management clients facing regulatory scrutiny. Counsel Joe Hewton has a ‘particular flair for intricate regulatory applications’ and is the key contact within the practice in relation to UK and US matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Financial services: contentious London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax