Oliver Palmer#12815

Oliver Palmer

Solicitor, Linklaters
Oli has extensive experience advising retail, wholesale, private and investment banks, asset managers, listed issuers and investment advisers across a broad range of contentious and non-contentious financial services regulatory matters.

Oli is a specialist in regulatory enforcement and internal investigations matters. This includes UK FCA and PRA, and internal, investigations covering matters relating to financial crime, retail issues (inc. pensions), systems and controls, governance, non-financial misconduct and notification obligations. Oli also has significant experience advising clients on financial services supervisory issues, skilled person reviews and FOS complaints handling issues.
Oli also advises clients on other financial services-related non-contentious matters such as governance/SMCR, the consumer duty, market abuse, and regulatory change projects. Oli in particular has deep experience advising clients on their obligations and arrangements under the SMCR.

Oli’s experience across both contentious and non-contentious financial services-related matters means that he has a deep understanding of the regulatory framework and is able to provide commercial and strategic advice in either context.

Oli also has wider pre-investigation and investigations experience, having been instructed on matters relating to Ofgem, the FRC and the HSE, and has worked on pre-litigation, High Court litigation and corporate crime matters.
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FCA and PRA enforcement essentials—public censures
FCA and PRA enforcement essentials—public censures
Practice Notes

This Practice Note explains the enforcement powers of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) to issue a public censure (statement) and the relevant provisions of the FCA’s Enforcement Guide (EG), the FCA’s Decision Procedure and Penalties Manual (DEPP) and the PRA’s approach to enforcement: statutory statements of policy and procedure. It considers the definition of a public censure, the regulators’ powers to impose a public censure, the regulators’ approach to imposing a public censure rather than a financial penalty, the regulators’ process for issuing a public censure and examples of FCA public censures and PRA public censures. It also summarises the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR)’s enforcement powers to issue public censures.

FCA and PRA search and seizure powers and dawn raids
FCA and PRA search and seizure powers and dawn raids
Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the FCA and PRA’s powers of search and seizure under warrant. It provides practical advice on how to be ready for a dawn raid, and sets out a detailed checklist of ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ for individuals and firms responding to the execution of a warrant.

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