Brian McDonnell

Brian is recognised for providing practical advice to a wide range of financial services firms. He has over 20 years of experience, 12 years as a City law firm partner most recently as head of Financial Markets at Addleshaw Goddard. He is ranked by Chambers as a leading individual (Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory).

He has in-depth industry knowledge, and has spent time as regulatory counsel at the London Stock Exchange and on secondment to Bank of America Merrill Lynch as the lawyer responsible for supporting MiFID implementation.

Brian sits on the City of London Law Society Regulatory Law Committee; and the Lexis Financial Services Consulting Editorial Board. He is the UK legal advisor to the Association of International Life Offices and is the author of Thomson Reuter’s A Practitioner’s Guide to Inside Information (2nd edition).