Clive Cunningham

Practice Areas

Clive specialises 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 special sector expertise 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).

Professional Memberships

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).

Publications

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)).