Mr. Cumming is a Partner of the firm. He has day-to-day responsibility for the firm’s finance and administration functions as well as the non-contentious financial services practice. He is recognized by independent editorial publications, including the IFLR1000 and AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, as a leading lawyer.
Experience
Mr. Cumming has broad and deep experience in corporate, commercial and tax matters with a particular focus on representing asset managers, investment banks, private banks and other wealth managers, insurance companies, broker-dealers and electronic trading and clearing platform operators. He has extensive experience dealing with the Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC”), including the Licensing Department, Intermediaries Supervision, Investment Product, Supervision of Markets, Enforcement and Corporate Finance. He regularly advises clients on the authorization of automated trading services, the formation of private funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds, capital raising for funds, SFC authorization of unit trusts and mutual funds and investment linked assurance schemes for sale to the retail public, private equity portfolio transactions, change of control transactions involving regulated financial institutions including SFC regulated hedge fund managers and Insurance Authority ("IA") regulated insurance companies, and ongoing compliance issues for SFC, IA and Hong Kong Monetary Authority ("HKMA") regulated financial institutions.
Education
Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University (LLB and LPC)
Admissions
Hong Kong SAR
England and Wales