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Nina Fischer

Nina is a Managing Associate in the firm’s Middle East financial markets and financial services regulatory practices. She has experience advising leading asset managers on the provision of cross-border financial services across the GCC as well as advising on general DIFC regulatory matters. Nina is also part of the firm’s FinTech practice and advises on the application of the regulatory framework in the nascent FinTech space. Nina’s previous experience includes advising on a range of transactional and behavioural antitrust cases. This includes advising on multi-jurisdictional merger control requirements in global merger and acquisition transactions and antitrust investigations by the European Commission and the UK regulator. Nina also assisted in advising on transactions and regulatory requirements in the areas of debt capital markets and structured finance. She previously worked in London and Hong Kong. Most recently Nina spent a year on secondment at an international payment services provider in London advising on a range of regulatory and antitrust matters. In particular, she advised different lines of business on their compliance with payment services regulation. · Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP

United Arab EmiratesFinancial Markets, Financial Services Regulation

About

Nina Fischer is a Managing Associate in Simmons & Simmons Middle East LLP's Middle East financial markets and financial services regulatory practices based in the United Arab Emirates. She advises leading asset managers on cross-border financial services across the GCC and on DIFC regulatory matters. She is also part of the firm's FinTech practice and advises on regulatory frameworks in the FinTech space. Her previous experience includes advising on transactional and behavioural antitrust cases, multi-jurisdictional merger control, and antitrust investigations by the European Commission and the UK regulator. She has also advised on transactions and regulatory requirements in debt capital markets and structured finance. She previously worked in London and Hong Kong and recently spent a year on secondment at an international payment services provider in London advising on regulatory and antitrust matters, including compliance with payment services regulation.

Practice areas

Financial MarketsFinancial Services RegulationFinTechAntitrustMerger ControlDebt Capital MarketsStructured FinancePayment Services Regulation

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Expertise

Asset managersCross-border financial services (GCC)DIFC regulatory mattersFinTech regulationTransactional antitrustBehavioural antitrustMulti-jurisdictional merger controlEU and UK antitrust investigationsDebt capital marketsStructured financePayment services compliance