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Simon Gleeson

Simon Gleeson

Title
Partner
Office
Clifford Chance, London | View map
Practice
Derivatives, Banking & finance, Financial services & markets
Publications
36

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+442070064979

Experience and career history

Simon Gleeson specialises in financial markets law and regulation, clearing, settlement, derivatives and sovereign debt.

Simon was seconded to the UK Financial Services Authority to assist with the development of the market abuse regime, and advised the World Economic Forum on its 2009 Report on The New Global Financial Architecture. His experience includes advising governments, regulators and public bodies as well as banks, investment firms, fund managers and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory issues.

Simon is a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee,  the Institute for International Finance's Special Committee on Effective Regulation and the FSB Legal Technical Advisory Committee.

St. Andrews University (MA, Mediaeval History) 1986
Stockbroker,  Williams de Broë 1987
University of London (LLB) 1992
Called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) 1992
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1999
Joined Clifford Chance as a partner 2007

Authorship

Laundering and Tracing (Edited by P B H Birks) (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1995)
Personal Property Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 1997)
Financial Services Regulation: The New Regime (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000)
A Practitioner's Guide to the FSA Regulation of Investment Banking (City & Financial Publishing, 2006)
Financial Crisis Management and Bank Resolution (Edited by John Raymond Labrosse, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal and Dalvinder Singh) (Informa, 2009)
International Regulation of Banking (Oxford University Press, 2010)

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