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Dechert LLP Offices
25 Cannon Street
LONDON
EC4M 5UB
England
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Richard L. Heffner, Jr.
Work Department
Financial services and investment management.
Position
Partner. Richard Heffner, an English solicitor and U.S. qualified attorney, advises on UK and U.S. financial services law, drawing on experience gained in-house, in private practice and with UK and U.S. regulators.
Career
Richard’s previous experience includes service as general counsel and compliance officer to a leading energy broker and alternative trading systems operator, and as head of compliance and enforcement at a start-up commodities clearing house.
He also served as enforcement counsel and legal team leader at the Financial Services Authority (now the Financial Conduct Authority) and one of its predecessors the Personal Investment Authority, where he handled a wide range of matters involving product providers and financial advisers.
His U.S. experience includes more than five years in private practice concentrating in securities and commodities litigation and arbitration and internships with the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Languages
English
Education
Duke University, B.A., 1982
Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1990
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+