Chris Ninan
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Corporates)
Band 4
About
Provided by Chris Ninan
Practice Areas
Financial Services Regulatory, Compliance Advisory, Enforcement and Investigations, Governance and Risk Management and Market Conduct
Career
Chris is a contentious regulatory specialist, acting for financial institutions and listed corporates on internal and regulatory enforcement investigations, with a particular specialism in market misconduct, ESG issues and cross-border investigations involving European and US regulators. He has acted on some of the most high profile FCA/PRA Enforcement investigations in the market and has represented clients before the Regulatory Decisions Committee and Upper Tribunal.
Chris also supports clients in complex interactions with the regulators, section 166 reviews, and compliance risk, particular with respect to culture, governance and conduct risk. He has also worked with clients appearing before Parliamentary Select Committees.
Chris is dual qualified in England and Wales, and New York, and has spent over three years on secondment at various investment banks, and spent two years on secondment to HSF New York where he acted for firms under investigation by the SEC and DOJ.
Personal
Chris is a contentious financial services regulatory specialist.
Chambers Review
UK
Chris Ninan works with financial service clients, European investment banks, global audit firms and crypto exchanges. Chris handles a range of contentious regulatory matters, including non-financial misconduct, internal investigations and FCA investigations.
Chris Ninan is an up-and-coming practitioner who handles a range of contentious regulatory matters on behalf of financial institutions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Chris Ninan is exceptionally bright, well informed and an excellent strategist. He is highly responsive and works hard to remain available at short notice."
"Chris Ninan is exceptionally bright, well informed and an excellent strategist. He is highly responsive and works hard to remain available at short notice."