About Tim Dolan

Tim Dolan's practice focuses on UK and European financial services regulation. With a strong background in working as a lawyer at international financial service regulators Tim has spent more than 18 years as a London based partner at global law firms. At the heart of Tim's practice is advising on whether institutions and fund structures are subject to UK and European regulation and on advising on the interpretation of the Financial Conduct Authority’s and the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s rule books. He supports firms and individuals when they need to engage with financial services regulators (including with breach; change of control and waiver notifications as well as authorisations) and helps his clients (fund managers; investment firms; banks; and payment firms) prepare for regulatory change.

The Legal 500 UK’s 2024 edition includes client feedback that Tim is known for 'his ability to combine explanations of highly technical regulatory guidance with pragmatic advice’. The 2023 edition stated that ‘Tim Dolan is an excellent communicator and delivers quality work quickly, very helpful and responsive’. The 2022 edition recommends him as ‘excellent. Very client oriented and pragmatic. Extensive knowledge and experience and able to help navigate complexities of FCA regulation’. Clients of Tim’s in the 2021 edition stated: ‘Tim Dolan is a very experienced and accessible regulatory lawyer’ and: ‘Very approachable, available and knowledgeable, with experience of many matters’.

Concentrations

•Fund Formations
•Private Equity
•Mergers & Acqusitions
•Joint Ventures

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Legal 500 UK
•Real Estate Funds, 2024-2025
•Financial Services: Contentious, 2024-2026
•Financial Services: Non-Contentious/Regulatory, 2008-2023
•Listed, Chambers UK Guide, Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory, 2026

 

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Areas of Law

  • Other 5
    • Real Estate Funds
    • Private Funds
    • Private Equity
    • Corporate
    • Institutional Investors

Practice Details

  • Firm Information
    Position
    Shareholder
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Matters: Advising on regulatory requirements under the new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation for an article 9 fund
    supporting multiple funds marketed into Europe under article 8 of the SFDR.
    Issuing opinions as to whether joint ventures
    funds amount to collective investment schemes
    alternative investment funds.
    Advising multiple fund managers as to how they should market in the UK, Europe,
    globally.
    Obtaining UK
    change of control approvals on multiple corporate transactions for clients.
    Conducting vendor
    purchaser financial services regulatory due diligence in connection with corporate acquisitions.
    Advising institutions on the impact of the FCA's Senior Managers Regime
    helping prepare statements of responsibilities for individuals.
    Assisting institutions to underst
    the impact of the FCA's consumer duty.
    Supporting institutions who have been subject to FCA Skilled Persons' reports.
    Advising institutions on when information is inside information under the Market Abuse Regime
    helping to structure robust Chinese Wall arrangements.
    Advising several global firms as to when they are conducting insurance mediation in the UK
    in Europe
    what structures they need to put in place.
    Advising payment services providers on their internal systems
    controls.
    Advising institutions on anti-money laundering
    sanctions requirements in the UK.

    Experience at Regulators: Advanced Associate, UK Financial Services Authority, 2003-2005
    Secretary to the Panel, New Zeal
    Takeovers Panel, 2002-2003
    Solicitor, New Zeal
    Securities Commission, 1999-2003
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Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    England and Wales
    Memberships

    Professional & Community Involvement

    •The Haberdashers’ Company, (Member Court of Assistants) 2021-Present
    •Governor and Chair of the Girls’ School Advisory Group, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Elstree Schools, 2016-Present

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    LL.B.
    Other Education
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    B.A.
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