Peter Bevan
United Kingdom
Linklaters LLP
One Silk Street
London, UK
EC2Y 8HQ
Tel: 02074563776
Email:
peter.bevan@linklaters.com
Web:
www.linklaters.com
Peter is Global Head of Linklaters’ Financial Regulation Group and is a partner based in the London office.
Peter has developed close working relationships with the firm’s banking and investment management clients. His practice includes all aspects of financial markets regulatory advice for broker-dealers and investment banks. Peter advises investment managers, private banks, hedge funds and private equity funds on regulatory issues affecting them. He also advises clients on regulatory investigations into areas such as market conduct, client money compliance and transaction reporting failures.
Peter has particular experience of new product development and marketing, trading issues such as market abuse and regulatory structuring advice. Earlier in his career, Peter was seconded to both Bankers Trust and Nomura, advising and assisting with the establishment of their respective securities financing businesses.
Peter has developed a wide-ranging financial regulatory practice. The breadth of his practice includes, advising on, amongst others:
- Regulatory change: advising numerous banks and investment firms on the implementation of regulatory reform initiatives including sustainable finance and ESG regulation, post-Brexit changes in the UK and EU, IFPR, MiFID2 and the FCA consumer duty
- New structures: advising on the creation and structuring of trading and clearing platforms, both internal crossing systems operated by firms and new market entrants including in the fintech sector
- Cross-border work: advising international banks, investment firms and market infrastructure on their European structures, to comply with regularly changing European regulations affecting financial institutions, including the ECB desk mapping review and CRD6
- Contentious regulatory: advising clients on regulatory investigations including skilled person reports, enforcement division investigations, supervisory reviews, applications by senior managers and applications for authorisation or variation of permissions
- Financial sector corporate activity: advising on internal structural reorganisation of banking groups, acquisition of regulated businesses including by private equity and financial sponsors, and special administrations of investment firms in insolvency
Our innovative banking team advises banks and other financial institutions, companies and governments on domestic and international bank financing transactions across every industry, commercial, financial and governmental sector.
Our experience of acting not only for arranging banks and lenders but also for credit enhancers and borrowers in relation to a wide range of sectors means we are able to anticipate and address the requirements of all parties to a transaction.
Our top ranked banking lawyers across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas advise on some of the largest, most complex and innovative deals in the market. We structure innovative solutions and our experience includes: acquisition finance, event-driven financings, debt restructurings revolving credits, leveraged finance, syndicated lending, trade and emerging markets finance, real estate finance, high yield, restructuring and insolvency, financial structuring, asset finance.
“Peter is a highly respected non-contentious financial services practitioner with deep expertise in product regulations, ESG and trading practices. He is the global head of Linklaters’ financial regulation group.”