Thomas Donegan

Practice Areas

Thomas has broad financial regulatory experience, which includes advising on strategic and structuring matters, regulatory authorizations and licensing, change of control, regulatory capital, regulated activities and cross-jurisdictional customer access, compliance and anti-money-laundering policies and procedures, custody, prime brokerage, trading, derivatives, banking, treasury, clearing, settlement and trade execution and client terms of business.

He also has a contentious practice, advising on regulatory investigations, enforcement, anti-money laundering and sanctions issues, incident response (e.g., AML. Sanctions, cyber) and financial services disputes work.

He advises a broad spectrum of financial institutions, including most of the world’s major banks, as well as leading brokers, dealers, investment or portfolio managers, fund managers, insurers, exchanges, clearing houses and settlement systems. He also advises participants in such markets such as corporates and end-users.

Thomas's experience has included advising clients on dealing with the implementation and impact of the EU/UK regulatory reforms (e.g., EMIR, MiFID II, capital, recovery & resolution, governance, ESG and corporate sustainability legislation, bank ring-fencing, anti-money laundering issues) and the challenges posed by Brexit. Thomas's practice has won numerous awards, recently being “Highly Recommended” in the FT European Innovative Lawyers Awards, 2023 and being named “regulatory team of the year” numerous times by IFLR, British Legal Awards and others.