Emily Reid
Senior Counsel Global Regulatory
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Legal 500 UK 2022"Emily Reid is the beating heart of the Hogan Lovells FinTech practice and its most passionate proponent. She also has a unique ability to adopt the FinTech “whiteboard” mentality and really think things through from first principles."
Emily has a reputation for delivering innovative ideas and solutions. She is sponsoring senior counsel for the consulting business which she was responsible for launching in 2016, to complement our Financial Services Legal Practice. She has a wealth of experience in the law and regulation that applies to firms in the retail banking, payments, consumer finance and merchant acquiring industries, advising clients from FinTech start-ups to major banks and financial institutions and has worked extensively with colleagues in other sectors within the financial services industry. With this background she understands the value that a consulting practice adds in complex matters from major projects to remediations and transactions.
“She is ranked in Band 1 for payments and consumer finance, listed as ‘Leading Individual’ for Legal 500, FinTech UK 2022 and was named ‘Women in FinTech Powerlist 2022 in the Senior Leader Category’ by Innovate Finance.”
Legal 500 UK 2022"Emily Reid is the beating heart of the Hogan Lovells FinTech practice and its most passionate proponent. She also has a unique ability to adopt the FinTech “whiteboard” mentality and really think things through from first principles."
Representative experience
Advising on digitalisation and simplification projects
Analysing business activities to determine whether they are regulated and the laws and regulations that apply
Supporting applications for authorisation
Leading several regulatory change projects e.g. PSD2 and consumer credit reform
Advising on structuring transactions from a regulatory perspective and on regulatory risk
Reviewing regulated lending businesses in preparation for an application to the FCA for full permission
Credentials
- B.A., University College London, BA, 1980