Ed oversees our global services to fund managers, asset managers, investment banks and corporate finance advisers. He works for regulated firms and those planning to become regulated, firms seeking to remain unregulated, and the regulators themselves.
Ed has experience in a wide variety of areas including:
- practical compliance advice
- regulatory investigations
- guidance on authorisation, licensing or registration
- training on conduct regulation or financial crime
- compliance monitoring
- regulatory reporting services
- advice on product distribution
- market abuse managed services
- large regulatory change projects
- target operating models for compliance functions.
Ed has worked in-house on secondment to a number of large investment firms. He has a keen interest in financial crime, both having been a fraud prosecutor and more recently working for the independent monitor under a deferred prosecution agreement between the US Department of Justice and one of the world’s largest banks. He has also worked to develop new court systems in developing countries, training and mentoring judges and prosecutors.
Based in London, Ed works with our teams in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and the US to support our clients globally.
Ed is a former lawyer and a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and holds the CISI’s Diploma in Investment Compliance.
