Alan Bainbridge
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Alan Bainbridge is a corporate lawyer based in London.
Alan focuses on strategic M&A and corporate advisory for banks and other financial institutions and regularly advises on bank-specific legislation.
Prior to becoming a partner in 2007, Alan spent a number of years in our Hong Kong office. Alan regularly advises bank boards on governance matters and bank specific legislation and has frequently contributed to academic publications such as A Practitioners Guide to Individual Conduct and Accountability in Financial Services Firms and the UK chapter of Global Legal Insights guide to Banking Regulation.
Professional experience
Collapse all- Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
- Solicitor, qualified in Hong Kong
Advising:
- NIBC Bank – on its US$1 billion sale to Hamburg Commercial Bank of its shipping finance platform
- HSBC – on the sale of its South African branch banking business to FirstRand Bank
- HSBC - on the disposal of its hedge fund administration businesses in Bahrain, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg and Singapore to BNP Paribas
- Societe Generale - on its partnership with Eurazeo to create an innovative maritime transition fund
- BNP Paribas - on its co-investment with Goldman Sachs in Finality International's Series B Funding round
- Patrizia AG – on its acquisition of Whitehelm, the global infrastructure asset manager group, from shareholders including institutional investor Challenger Group
- DVB Bank – on the £5.6 billion sale of its aviation finance division to Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
- Piraeus Bank – on the sale of its Albanian bank, Tirana Bank, to Balfin; and on the sale of multiple non-performing exposure (NPE) portfolios to Davidson Kempner and others as part of the bank's NPE reduction programme
- SG Hambros Bank – on its acquisition of Kleinwort Benson Bank's business by way of Part VII FSMA banking business transfer
- Barclays Bank Plc – on the US$2.8bn sell-down of Barclays' 62 percent shareholding in JSE-listed Barclays Africa Group Limited, and on the related bank separation arrangements
- HSBC – the independent banking representative on the review and implementation of HSBC's structural reform proposals to comply with ICB's ring-fencing recommendations
- Barclays Bank Plc – on the sale of its French retail banking and wealth management business to ANA Cap Financial Partners
Lloyds Bank Plc – on its £37bn reduction of capital in connection with its ring-fencing implementation; and on the restructuring of its non-core assets book, including several shipping and aviation loan portfolio disposals.
The Legal 500 UK, 2019
"excellent in terms of commerciality, board room interaction and credibility".
- Co-author of the UK chapter, Global Legal Insights' Guide to Banking Regulation 2019
- Contributor, A Practitioner's Guide to Individual Conduct and Accountability in Financial Services Firms
- Co-author, the Banking Reform Act chapter of Thomson Reuters' Compliance Officer publication
- Previous articles featured in the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and the Proprietary Trading Global Comparison.
- Impact of the FCA's new Consumer Duty on mortgage book deals in the UK — Financier Worldwide
- Global video series: Dealing with bank assets
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: NPLs – EU Directive on credit servicers and credit purchasers — Financier Worldwide.
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The outlook for bank M&A in 2023 - Global Banking Regulation Review.
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Shareholders versus directors – who wins? - Financier Worldwide
Insights
Episode 5: M&A | BHCA issues for bank investments
Podcast | September 10, 2024
Episode 4: CRD VI | Future impact on bank reorganisations
Podcast | June 06, 2024
Episode 3: M&A | Fraud
Podcast | April 03, 2024