Dr. Ioannis Asimakopoulos

Senior Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Ioannis is a non-contentious regulatory lawyer with a focus in financial services.

Ioannis works on both advisory and transactional matters. He focuses his practice on UK and EU financial services regulatory law with an emphasis on prudential regulation, operational resilience and digital assets. He acts on behalf of a wide variety of clients including regulators, banks, fund managers and payment services providers.

Ioannis covers a broad spectrum of regulatory issues including licensing, restructuring, multi-jurisdictional compliance and regulatory considerations arising in the context of corporate transactions.

Contributed to

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Special resolution regime for central counterparties

Practice Notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Kelesi Blundell, Dr Ioannis Asimakopoulos and Eleanor Wagg of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, looks at the special resolution regime created for central counterparties by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023. In particular, it considers the eight stabilisation options, the Bank of England (BoE)’s powers pre-resolution, the BoE’s power to appoint a temporary manager, the special resolution objectives, the conditions for exercise of the stabilisation power, valuations, share transfer instruments, property transfer instruments and resolution instruments.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Practice Area

Financial Services

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualified Year

2017

Experience

Single Resolution Board (2019 - 2021)
DLA Piper (2021 - 2022)
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (2022 - Present)

Membership

Athens Bar Association
Brussels Bar Association
Goethe University Frankfurt - Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance
University of Luxembourg – Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance