Our Team

David is a Partner of the firm and Head of the Financial Services Regulatory department. He is regularly instructed by domestic and overseas clients to represent their interests in enforcement proceedings brought by U.K. financial regulators such as the FCA, BoE(PRA), FRC and HMRC. He also advises on non-contentious matters such as Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) compliance and FCA authorisation applications. He has also successfully acted for precious metal, property, engineering, luxury watch, farming and oil consultancy businesses in disputes with major UK banks over account use and activity.

David has considerable experience in financial service regulatory matters both in the contentious and non-contentious sphere. He brings a unique knowledge of the enforcement investigation process having successfully acted against the FCA’s Enforcement & Market Oversight Division (EMO) before being seconded and employed by EMO between 2015 and 2019.

During that time Tim worked on Retail Enforcement Investigations into Connaught, Paul Flowers, Standard Chartered and HBOS before becoming a member of the Criminal Prosecutions Team, where he advised enforcement investigation teams in the Retail, Wholesale and Unauthorised Business departments on over thirty dual-track investigations into breaches of the Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 (s19 general prohibition) and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, the Financial Services Act 2012 (s89-90 Market Abuse) and the Criminal Justice Act 1993 (Insider Dealing), including Telit Plc and Al Rayan Bank. He also advised the Authorisations and Financial Crime Specialist Supervision departments in relation to individual SIF applications (FIT).