David Berman leads Covington’s financial services practice in EMEA. He advises a range of financial institutions on key regulatory compliance and investigations matters, and frequently counsels boards and senior management teams on significant regulatory issues. He specializes in tactical and strategic issue prevention, containment, and resolution, and has an outstanding track-record of achieving optimal outcomes for clients.
David has extensive experience across a wide spectrum of litigation, investigations, compliance, and transactional issues, including market conduct, whistle blows, culture and conduct, risk management, systems and controls, internal investigations, individual accountability, governance, conflicts of interest, inducements, regulatory aspects of transactions, remediation and redress exercises, and conduct of business regulation generally, as well as acting as a “skilled person” under Section 166 FSMA 2000.
His representative clients include: institutional investment managers, integrated investment banks, central banks, hedge funds, private equity houses, stockbroking firms, credit funds, consumer credit firms, clearing banks and corporates.
David is recommended by Chambers UK and Legal 500 UK as a leading practitioner for financial services regulatory matters. He is often consulted as a subject-matter expert by industry bodies and regulators and is a frequent speaker at financial sector conferences and events.
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