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Harvey KnightPARTNER | LONDON
Harvey is a partner in the financial services regulatory team.
Harvey is an ex-regulator and heads our UK Financial Services Regulatory and UK White Collar Investigations teams.
For 6 years, Harvey worked in-house with the UK’s Financial Services Authority ( FSA before it was split into the FCA and PRA) and advised the FSA’sAuthorisation and Approvals function as well as the FSA and its senior management on reputationally contentious issues.
Since his return to private practice, Harvey has been consistently ranked as a Leading Individual in Chambers and Legal 500 for contentious nancialservices.
Harvey and our UK Financial Services Regulatory team’s work is centred on regulatory perimeter issues, regulatory permissions and approvals,regulatory supervisory issues and enforcement investigations involving the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Prudential Regulatory Authority(PRA), the UK Listing Authority ( UKLA), the Takeover Panel, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (IAEW) and the PaymentsServices Regulator (PSR), as well as civil and criminal cases involving the High Courts, the Serious Fraud Of ce ( SFO), the National Crime Agency(NCA) and overseas regulators such as the SEC and NY Fed.
In leading our UK White Collar Investigations team, Harvey advises leading individuals, senior executives and owner-managers on how to handle theirpersonal and corporate relationships in internal investigations and externally with other regulated rms and individuals, the regulators and othernational and international civil and criminal enforcement agencies as well as any related potential national and international civil and criminalproceedings.
In the last decade Harvey has been responsible for the rst successful judicial review of the FCA (which established the principle of joint legal privilegein regulatory investigations) , the rst settlement with the PRA for a UK bank’s CEO and this year, the unprecedented overturning of a FCA ban of asenior banker, widely reported in the media.
SECRETARY MANDI GORNALL +44 20 7597 6433 [email protected]
TRACK RECORD
Securing the rst successful judicial review of the FSA and one of its own initiated enforcement investigations Ford, R (on the application of) v TheFinancial Services Authority [2011] EWHC 2583. His client was a Chief Executive against whose rm, Keydata Investment Services Limited theFSA had intervened on an unprecedented scale. Harvey has been involved in numerous subsequent cases involving such FSA/FCA interventionagainst the corporate entities involved.
Contesting regulatory proceedings to the Upper Tribunal and the Court of Appeal including the successful and unprecedented reversion of a FCAban of a senior manager (Andrew Tinney v The Financial Conduct Authority [2019] UKUT 0227 (TCC).
Securing favourable settlements for senior executives in FCA and PRA enforcement proceedings as well as numerous successful non-routineFCA approval applications and FCA Supervisory resolutions.
Successfully handling overseas regulators and/or enforcement agencies’ requests for assistance.
ADMISSIONS
England & Wales, 1993
+44 20 7597 6199
PUBLICATIONS
‘Market Abuse and Insider Dealing’ , Butterworths Corporate Law Service, chapter editor
MEMBERSHIPS
Financial Services Lawyers Association
EDUCATION
Lincoln College, Oxford University, B.A.
LANGUAGES
ENGLISH
DATES
RECOGNITION
Chambers UK 2018 - Rankedin - Harvey Knight
2020 Ranked in Chambers UK 2020 Legal 500 UKrecommended lawyer
2020 Legal 500 UKLeading Individual
2019 Legal 500 UK LeadingIndividual
2019 Chambers Top RankedUK Harvey Knight
2017 Legal 500 UK LeadingIndividual
2017 Chambers HarveyKnight
2016 Legal 500 UK LeadingIndividual
2016 Chambers UK - Leadingindividual
2015 Chambers UK - Ranked InLeading Individual
2015 Legal 500 UKleading individual
London20 OLD BAILEY, LONDON, EC4M 7AN
JOINED: 2011PARTNER: 2011