Andrew Henderson > Goodwin > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Andrew Henderson

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Position

Partner

Career

Andrew Henderson is a partner in Goodwin’s Financial Services, FinTech, and Private Investment Funds practices based in London.

He helps financial services firms and investors navigate international regulatory complexity and manage legal risk through the lifecycle of their businesses and investments.

Dr. Henderson advises firms and investors on the scope of their regulatory duties, deals with regulators on their behalf, and works with them to achieve optimal legal outcomes within the regulatory environments in which they operate, raise capital, and invest.

He has practiced for over twenty-five years and his clients have included private equity and venture capital funds and managers, international banks and broker-dealers, insurance companies and consumer lenders, and businesses involved with new technologies. This includes business connected with distributed networks, digital assets, insurtech, payments and lending. He has also advised governments and regulators in the United Kingdom, Africa, the Middle East and Far East.

Dr. Henderson has helped clients:

• establish, operate and wind down financial services businesses, including providing strategic advice to directors and owners dealing with regulators;
• acquire, structure investments in, and develop those businesses, including providing advice on managing multi-jurisdictional and emerging markets transactions; and
• raise capital and market and distribute investment and other financial services and products, including investments marketed as ESG compliant.

In addition to his fee-earning work, Dr. Henderson is Goodwin’s Money Laundering Reporting and Compliance Officer and co-leads the firm’s European Digital Currency and Blockchain practice.

Education

PhD, 1999, Cambridge University; LLM, 1996, University of Johannesburg, LLB, 1995, University of Johannesburg, BA, 1990, University of the Witwatersrand