Martyn Hopper
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Corporates)
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About
Provided by Martyn Hopper
Practice Areas
Martyn advises financial institutions on regulatory matters. Prior to returning to private practice in 2004 he spent over nine years working as a senior lawyer at the UK Financial Services Authority, latterly as Head of Department in the Enforcement Division. He has extensive experience advising investment banks, retail banks, insurers, asset managers and listed companies on regulatory compliance problems. He has advised on “crisis management” on discovery of major compliance failures, conducted numerous internal investigations and represented clients in regulatory investigations, enforcement actions and related civil litigation across the financial services sector.
His client work has included some of the highest profile cases brought by the regulators over the past decade and has involved him regularly representing clients before regulators, tribunals and the higher courts (including applications for judicial review of regulators). He has extensive experience of managing multi-jurisdictional regulatory issues and investigations touching Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific. Martyn also regularly advises clients on compliance risk management issues.
Chambers Review
UK
Martyn Hopper is head of the department in the enforcement division. He has an outstanding reputation handling FCA investigations on behalf of household-name insurers and investment banks.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Martyn Hopper is formidable - he's a star in this space."
"Martyn Hopper is strategic and thinks deeply about cases - he is an expert in this field."
"Martyn Hopper is formidable - he's a star in this space."
"Martyn Hopper is strategic and thinks deeply about cases - he is an expert in this field."