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Barclays Middle East operations, based in Dubai, have undergone significant changes in recent years. One of a number of European investment banks to be affected by falling revenue and growing...
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Barclays Bank of Kenya is a part of Absa Group, an African financial services group that is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa and is one of...
| Barclays Bank Moçambique
Barclays Bank Moçambique provides personal and business banking services for corporate customers and individuals in Mozambique. Founded in the country in 1977, it is based in Maputo with branches across...
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Over the past two years, the Barclays legal team has transitioned from operating as a number of separate business-focused teams, with lawyers sitting in different locations within the UAE with...
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The Barclay’s legal team covering Italy comprises of lawyers based in both London and Milan, with previous experience in international and Italian law firms. The legal team provides advisory and...
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The Hong Kong legal team of Barclays is led by Rachel Huf who serves as general counsel Asia Pacific and consists of 19 lawyers and two non-lawyers. The team is...
| Barclays – Personal, Corporate Banking and Shared Services
A well-known banking institution with a long history in Italy dating back to 1925, Barclays possess a talented legal team in the country that received special mention from a private...
| Barclays India
Barclays has had a branch presence in India since 1990, achieving market leading positions in its lines of business across banking, technology and shared services operations. Responsible for the general...
Freeze the regulatory environment of today and Barclays group GC Bob Hoyt believes the 740-strong legal team would still have a lot of work to understand and safely operate the...
| Barclays Investment Bank
Head of emerging markets legal Amol Prabhu leads the interaction of Barclays Investment Banking with its Barclays Africa franchise. This involves extensive co-ordination and collaboration with multiple legal teams comprising...
| Barclays Bank of Kenya
The sale of part of Barclays’ stake in its South Africa-based Barclays Africa Group earlier this year has accelerated the pace of change many of its banks are facing in...
Rachel Huf leads the Hong Kong based legal team at Barclays in her role of general counsel Asia Pacific. The team contains 18 lawyers and two non-lawyers as part of a larger team of 100 lawyers across Hong Kong, India, Singapore and Tokyo. In Hong Kong, legal coverage areas include banking, covering investment, M&A, capital markets, equities, funds, distribution, structuring and financial crime. The legal team also fully supports litigation and investigations, regulatory relations, employment law issues, contract management, company secretarial and risk governance controls functions. The team has repeatedly demonstrated exemplary abilities to work cooperatively and in a non-territorial way across teams and with internal stakeholders generally, both on project work and transactions on issues of business re-alignment, un-cleared margin preparatory work, MiFID2 and
Asia Pacific regulations, OTC derivatives including Dodd Frank and EMIR and other significant US and EU regulation changes. Huf explains: ‘I was truly impressed by the focus, collaboration and constant communication to work through all of the issues whether it was notifications to Asia Pacific regulators, HR issues in difficult employment regimes, planning for the impact on clients and products and working towards an orderly closure or sale of businesses. People came together and truly pitched in and pulled their weight, there were no silos or territorial behaviour. It was a great example of collaboration with everyone working towards the same common purpose. That level of engagement, professionalism and collaboration is something I was immensely proud of especially during a period of uncertainty’. The legal team has taken a leading role in strategy advising for leading industry groups on legal and regulatory changes concerning EU and UK legislation in response to Brexit, and Hong Kong industry groups on technological developments including fintech. The team demonstrates leadership, drive and commitment on diversity and inclusion and citizenship initiatives also, and Huf herself is a regional executive sponsor for the “Spectrum” LGBT network, co-leading the Hong Kong chapter with team member Colin Dunlop, who also represents the Asia Pacific region at the global legal diversity and inclusion committee. Barclays has been recognised as a top-ten company in its Hong Kong LGBT workplace equality index, and is also recognised for its work internally and with the broader LGBT community through the legal team’s involvement in forums and associations. The head of North Asia legal, Rochelle Hooper, has been influential in chairing both the Hong Kong and regional Asia Pacific chapters of Barclays’ gender network (named “WiN”) and frequently represents Barclays via Women in Finance Asia and
The Women’s Foundation. Further proving its credentials in these aspects, lawyer Bobby Ladwa chairs the Hong Kong and Asia Pacific “Embrace” multicultural network which, in recent months, has launched a campaign encouraging colleagues to share unique stories related to their backgrounds. Additionally, team member Dan Shapiro leads the Hong Kong “Working Families Network”, and has been instrumental in re-launching
the network’s internal and external educational and social activities in Hong Kong.
