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Key industry sectors
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
Knowledge
UK: The new prudential regime for investment firms
Publication | November 27, 2019
Global and EU sustainable finance initiatives
Publication | September 17, 2019
UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) hub
Publication | August 30, 2019
SMCR for consumer credit firms: more change!
Publication | August 27, 2019