Saima Hanif KC

Practice Areas

Financial Services, Banking & Finance, Insurance, Professional Discipline, Sanctions, Administrative Law.

Saima is a recognised expert in contentious FS, and has acted in various high-profile disputes e.g. the SKAT ‘dividend arbitrage’ litigation, the Forex manipulation scandal, and the 1MDB investigation in Singapore.

She is currently sole counsel in two major FCA investigations and acted for the PRA in the widely publicized action against Wyelands Bank and its former CEO, Mr Hunter. She appears regularly in the Upper Tribunal (Tinney v FCA, achieving an unprecedented outcome), Roberts v FCA where she acted for the former-CEO of Catalyst, Khan v FCA, Karan v FSA & UBS) and has extensive cross-border experience, acting for clients in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai (Siddique v DFSA, Ro let v DFSA) the Isle of Man and Guernsey. She represented the claimant in: two rare successful JRs of the regulator (Ford v FSA, T & I v FCA); a landmark FOS JR (Chancery v FOS) and a Court of Appeal challenge to a FOS jurisdiction decision (Assurant v FOS). She also has an expertise in sanctions law, and is representing a bank in a dispute concerning Iranian sanctions and the EU Blocking regulation.

Career

Call: 2002;

Silk: 2021;

Listed in the Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2021;

2023: appointed as a SDM in Guernsey and a Justice of the Astana IFC Court.

Previous Secondments: FSA; Clifford Chance; FMLC, Bank of England; FCA (GCD).

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, FSLA, JUSTICE Council Member

Publications

Co-editor: Disciplinary & Regulatory Proceedings (Jordans), Phipson on Evidence (Sweet & Maxwell)