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Ian D’Costa is an experienced financial services lawyer with over 18 years of expertise in regulatory compliance, investment management, and fintech. Ian has worked both in private practice and in-house and understands how to offer pragmatic and clear advice in relation to complex regulatory frameworks. Ian has extensive experience of negotiating complex investment products from private equity to esoteric longevity swaps.
More about Ian
Ian specialises in advising in respect of regulatory implementation, fund structures, advising on legal risk, governance, and high-value transactions. Ian has led legal teams, streamlined operations, and supported established asset managers, quantitative trading firms and fintech startups.
Recent Work
Negotiating investments for clients in a wide variety of funds including USD1 billion investments into PE, infrastructure, credit and hedge funds.
Structuring and negotiating managed accounts for a hedge fund with client investing USD250m to USD1 billion.
Advising clients in relation to a broad range of derivatives including plain vanilla swaps to longevity swaps and a TRS program, swap with a notional of USD10 billion.
Negotiating and advising in relation to complex IMAs relating to a USD3 billion investment in a liability driven mandate and a USD5 billion investment in a ESG tilted global equities mandate.
Advising a ESG focused cryptoasset startup on its structure and the cryptoasset regulatory framework in the UK and the EU’s MiCA.
Advising a quantitative hedge fund in relation to its potential sale.
Advising clients in respect of a broad range of regulatory developments and implementation including MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR, AIFMD and UCITS.
Working with boards to introduce and design risk management policies and procedures.
Ian D'Costa
Partner | Solicitor