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Tom is a Partner in Osborne Clarke’s corporate team in London.
Having trained at Slaughter and May, qualifying in March 2009, Tom joined Osborne Clarke from there in May 2016.
Tom advises on a broad range of corporate transactions and in particular on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and equity fundraisings, with a focus on banking and financial technology.
EU and UK regulators have been particularly active in the FinTech space in recent months, undertaking a number of surveys, discussions, reviews and consultations in an effort to define the…
It's not just headline megadeals for FinTech as the sector enjoys strong investment growth When it comes to the FinTech sector, the headline numbers really only tell half the story.…
Many financial services companies and consultancies operating in the sector rely heavily on IT contractors and project managers and others who operate via personal service company (PSC) arrangements. PSC arrangements…
Welcome to the latest edition of Osborne Clarke's Fintech Update.
On 7 January 2019, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published a joint Report on innovation facilitators (regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs). The Report performs a comparative analysis of innovation facilitators…
If you look at global revenues for the interactive entertainment market in the last five years, it is a pretty simple story; a very positive-looking "up and to the right"…
Moving past the hype and headlines It doesn’t take much effort to find headlines reporting either hype or scare stories in the world of blockchain. It is much rarer to…
In September 2018, the French data protection authority (CNIL) issued a report considering Blockchain technology from a personal data protection perspective. Although not binding guidance, the report represents one of…
The FinTech sector is red-hot right now. It is becoming a major focus for nearly all firms, from traditional financial institutions significantly increasing their FinTech investments, to the tech start-ups…
The FinTech sector is red-hot right now. It is becoming a major focus for nearly all firms, from traditional financial institutions significantly increasing their FinTech investments, to the tech start-ups…
Late in 2017, the UK Financial Conduct Authority published a Feedback Statement on its Discussion Paper (DP 17/03) on distributed ledger technology (DLT), otherwise known as blockchain. The Feedback Statement…