Matthew Baker is a financial services regulatory lawyer based in London. He is a specialist in non-contentious advisory work with a particular focus on the asset management sector, banking regulation, corporate transactional support and online trading.

Clients include asset managers; banks; CFD providers and online brokers; institutional investors; insurers; and exchanges and trading facilities.

Matt advises clients across the whole life-cycle of regulated businesses and their products including:

• Acquisitions and listings of regulated businesses
• Perimeter advice, authorisations and variations of permissions
• Cross-border work, including advising international banks and asset managers on their legal and regulatory obligations when operating in the UK; helping firms to understand their obligations when providing services to customers in other jurisdictions; and coordinating multi-jurisdiction reviews (in this regard, Matt has built a network of specialist regulatory advisers and obtained advice for clients from over 120 jurisdictions including all EEA member states)
• Product launches, restructurings and reorganisations
• Regulatory change and ongoing compliance
• Disposals, restructurings and the closure of businesses. 

Matt collaborates closely with other teams across London and internationally, in particular advising on the regulated aspects of corporate finance and M&A activities, and in supporting our investigations and enforcement teams.

Matt regularly speaks and writes on regulatory change, including on ESG/sustainable finance regulation, CRD VI and its impact on non-EU lenders, AIFMD and MiFID II.