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Nikesh Pandit

npandit@4-5.co.uk

Position

Nikesh focuses on regulatory and disciplinary law and has a particular interest in financial regulation. Nikesh also has experience in broader public and administrative law matters.

Career

Prior to joining Chambers, from 2015-2020, Nikesh trained and practised as a financial regulation solicitor in the London office of a major US law firm. In this role, Nikesh completed secondments to the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Enforcement and Market Oversight Division and to a regulatory team at Goldman Sachs. Additionally, Nikesh gained first-hand experience in European corporate governance matters through completing an internship in this field at a former subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, MSCI Inc., in Brussels.

Nikesh’s experience includes:

• money laundering investigations
• bribery and corruption investigations
• mis-selling interventions
• skilled person reviews
• unauthorised business remediation
• contentious fitness and propriety assessments
• regulatory perimeter and structuring advice
• systems and controls reviews

Nikesh also maintains a busy non-financial regulatory practice and regularly acts as a Case Presenter for the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council in regulatory hearings.

Nikesh has experience in broader public and administrative law matters. He has gained extensive tribunal advocacy experience in this field through acting as a Presenting Officer for the UK Home Office. Nikesh has also advised on freedom of information and environmental information requests and HMRC data gathering powers.

Languages

German (fluent) Gujarati (oral)

Memberships

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

Education

University of Cambridge, MPhil (Distinction)

University of Manchester, LLB (Hons)