Andrew Massey is a partner in the firm's financial services and asset management practice group. He provides advice on financial services law and regulation to a diverse range of financial services institutions including asset managers, banking groups, financial intermediaries and platforms, and institutional investors. His practice covers advising on the financial services regulatory perimeter, and legal and regulatory requirements – when businesses need to be regulated, how businesses become regulated, and what businesses need to do to comply with financial services regulation.
Andrew is also a regulated investment fund specialist. He advises managers of UK authorised funds on a wide range of matters, including new fund launches, changes to existing funds, schemes of arrangement, fund documentation and other disclosures, agreements with service providers, distribution arrangements, and regulatory compliance. In addition, Andrew acts for asset managers of both regulated and unregulated investment funds that wish to access the UK market, including advising on the UK’s Overseas Funds Regime, the AIFMD national private placement regime and the financial promotion regime.
Andrew is ranked in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for Financial Services Regulatory Advice (non-contentious) as well as for Open-ended / Retail Funds.
Andrew has served on the firm’s Audit Committee since 2022.
