Band 3
Provided by Clive Cunningham
Clive works in financial services law and regulation. With over 30 years City experience, including time as a banking regulator with the Bank of England and in-house at Merrill Lynch (wealth management), Clive advises banks, asset managers and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters. Areas of key sectors are banking, asset management and securities regulation.
Clive regularly advises financial institutions on regulatory matters throughout their life cycle: including licensing, structuring new businesses and products, corporate governance, day-to-day conduct of business compliance, client documentation, regulatory aspects of outsourcing and other commercial arrangements, international regulation, regulatory developments and implementation/change projects, regulatory capital, and M&A (including controllers and close links matters).
Clive is a member of the influential City of London Law Society (CLLS) Regulatory Committee; the Law Society's Financial Services Sub-Committee; and the Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) Banking Scoping Forum. He works regularly with the industry through trade associations, especially UK Finance and PIMFA (member of Regulatory Committee).
Clive has published multiple articles via HSF channels and publications (eg IFLR and Law 360); and co-authored chapters in various text books (including A Practitioner's Guide to MiFID II (Sweet & Maxwell) and Brexit and Financial Services Regulation (OUP)).
Provided by Chambers
Clive Cunningham applies his in-depth knowledge of financial regulation when advising clients that operate in the banking and investment management spaces. Recently Cunningham has been active advising clients on the FCA's Consumer Duty.
Provided by Chambers
Clive is very experienced, intuitive and easy to work with.
Clive is a reliable and dependable adviser. He is straightforward, concise and timely - all the things you want from an adviser. He knows the law, gives good advice and is incredibly responsive.
Clive is excellent in all aspects.
Clive is very experienced, intuitive and easy to work with.
Clive is a reliable and dependable adviser. He is straightforward, concise and timely - all the things you want from an adviser. He knows the law, gives good advice and is incredibly responsive.
Clive is excellent in all aspects.