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About
Provided by 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)
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Saima Hanif KC is a well-respected barrister who represents both individuals and institutions undergoing investigation and enforcement proceedings by financial regulators. She also specialises in global financial services regulation with a particular focus across EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
Saima Hanif KC of 3 Verulam Buildings is recommended for her specialist knowledge of the intersection of sanctions, banking and the financial services sector. She has experience assisting some of the largest financial institutions in the world on sanctions mandates. She has particular expertise assisting with contractual disputes and international arbitrations arising out of claimed force majeure events, following the sanctioning of involved parties.
Saima Hanif KC is known for her work on a range of banking matters, including acting in large cross-border fraud disputes. She also has experience in investigations and sanctions-related cases, specialising in regulatory-related matters.
Saima Hanif KC of 3 Verulam Buildings is an accomplished barrister who is particularly well known for her adroit representation of financial services professionals in a wide range of disciplinary issues. She is also called upon to tackle significant healthcare, education and legal disciplinary matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Saima is a very impressive lawyer. She is very knowledgeable in the space."
"Saima is excellent. She's bright, user-friendly and well thought of in this field."
"Saima Hanif KC is in my top three barristers for everything. She has an amazing practice which is at the cutting edge of commercial, sanctions and litigation."
"Saima Hanif KC is very commercial. You get confident commercial advice that you know is supported by rigorous academic thought."
"Saima is very collaborative, clear in her advice and user-friendly. She is great."
"Saima is very good and a well-respected silk."
"Saima is a very user-friendly and commercial barrister."
"Saima is bold, strategic and willing to stake a position with great authority. She sees through complexity immediately and her written advocacy is extremely compelling and easy to understand."
"Saima is a very impressive lawyer. She is very knowledgeable in the space."
"Saima is excellent. She's bright, user-friendly and well thought of in this field."
"Saima Hanif KC is in my top three barristers for everything. She has an amazing practice which is at the cutting edge of commercial, sanctions and litigation."
"Saima Hanif KC is very commercial. You get confident commercial advice that you know is supported by rigorous academic thought."
"Saima is very collaborative, clear in her advice and user-friendly. She is great."
"Saima is very good and a well-respected silk."
"Saima is a very user-friendly and commercial barrister."
"Saima is bold, strategic and willing to stake a position with great authority. She sees through complexity immediately and her written advocacy is extremely compelling and easy to understand."
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