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Brandon Wong

Associate

About

Brandon is an associate in our Funds and Financial Regulation team, and focuses on financial services regulatory matters for a broad range of clients.

He regularly advises across the team’s financial regulatory, fintech and authorised funds practice areas, acting for a range of clients from large financial institutions and financial services regulators to start-up and scale-up businesses. Areas that Brandon advises on include:

The application of the regulatory perimeter and financial promotions regime.
The formation and regulation of retail fund structures.
The application of payment services and e-money regulations.
Drafting and reviewing a range of client facing documentation for financial services clients.
Day-to-day regulatory advice for scaling fintechs particularly in the lending and wealth management sectors.
Investment reviews in both a regulated and unregulated funds context for institutional investors.

Brandon also advises financial institutions and financial services regulators on large regulatory projects including technology outsourcings, regulatory support on corporate acquisitions, and assisting on regulatory change projects such as for the FCA.

Experience

Fund manager clients: Advising several fund manager clients on the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements including in respect of funds seeking to adopt a Sustainability Label as well as sustainable funds subject to the ‘naming and marketing rules’.
Investment platform provider: Advising investment platform provider on the development of a new platform proposition including on regulatory considerations regarding structure and operations.
Payments provider: Advising established payments provider on the authorised push payment fraud reimbursement regime.
Payments start-up: Advising payments start-up on the development and launch of an innovative payments platform including on the regulation of payment service providers and customer terms.
Regulation of digital assets: Advising on the regulation of digital assets and crypto assets in respect of both UK businesses and overseas businesses looking to set up in the UK.
Institutional investors: Advising institutional investors on private fund investments in private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate funds.