Imogen Garner
Senior Consultant
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Imogen Garner is a UK and EU financial services law and regulation lawyer based in London. Imogen focuses her practice advising a broad range of clients on the UK and EU financial services regimes. Her clients are based in the EU and globally.
As head of our buy-side regulatory practice, she has a particular specialist focus on asset and wealth managers, custodians, depositary banks and other service providers to asset managers and funds. Imogen's asset manager clients employ diverse strategies, from UCITS and traditional long-only managers through to hedge, real estate, private equity and infrastructure funds. She has also worked with a number of asset management industry trade bodies, including the Investment Association, AIMA and the BVCA.
Outside of the asset and wealth management sphere, Imogen's financial institutions clients include significant global banking institutions. Imogen has assisted clients with significant regulatory change projects, as well as their on-going interactions with regulators. She advises regularly on the financial services aspects of corporate transactions and on the regulation of securities offerings and fund-raisings.
As well as advising regulated institutions, Imogen has worked within the regulator. She spent nine months seconded to the General Counsel's Division of the Financial Services Authority (the FSA, as it then was), where she advised the FSA's CIS Policy Team and HM Treasury on the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
Imogen is increasingly recognized as an expert in the Fintech, Regtech and cryptocurrencies regulatory space. She is a regular speaker on these topics and co-leads our Fintech regulatory practice in London.
Professional experience
Collapse all- Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
- Unlocking the Blockchain (Part 2): Understanding Smart Contracts. Imogen Garner provided an analysis of the legal and regulatory issues that arise in relation to the use of smart contracts including contract law and financial services and consumer protection regulations.
- Unlocking the blockchain (Part 1). This seminar focussed on the potential applications of the blockchain technology and the key legal and regulatory considerations. Imogen Garner spoke about regulation and blockchain applications.
News
Norton Rose Fulbright advises BMO Financial Group on its £615 million sale of EMEA asset management business to Ameriprise Financial
November 11, 2021
Norton Rose Fulbright advises Charles Stanley on £278.9 million recommended cash offer by Raymond James
August 04, 2021
Norton Rose Fulbright advises Taylor Maritime Investments Limited on its $253 million IPO
June 01, 2021
Knowledge
Global financial services webinar: Crypto fund and buy-side developments
Blog | June 07, 2022
Crypto fund and buy-side developments
Blog | May 25, 2022
European Commission’s AIFMD legislative proposal: Focus on delegation
Publication | December 03, 2021
ESG regulation: Global themes and what's on the horizon
Webinar | November 18, 2021