ABOUT
Alix Prentice is a partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. She specializes in advising financial institutions and investors on the UK’s financial services regulatory regime.
Alix has over 20 years of experience (some gained at the regulator) of advising on regulatory requirements and relationships with regulators across a range of industries and asset classes, including banks, broker-dealers, custodians, distributors, issuers, cryptocurrency businesses family offices and private investors, hedge and other alternative fund managers and private equity. Alix has particular expertise in structured finance and its capital treatment and regularly advises on cross-border transactions in this area.
Having spent more than 10 years in practice in US-headquartered law firms (some of which in New York and Washington), Alix is well-versed in assisting US and other overseas financial services businesses coming into the UK. Alix has been recognised as a Lexology “Legal Influencer” for Financial Services – UK and in Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom for Financial Services Law.
