About
Nigel Brahams is Partner and Head of Financial Services at Collyer Bristow LLP, leading the firm's Financial Services group within the Corporate team. He specialises in regulatory and transactional FinTech and financial services across brokerage, trading, derivatives, payments, cryptoassets and Islamic finance, with experience in early-stage funding and M&A, and prior in-house roles at firms including Nomura, Société Générale, NatWest Markets and GFI Group.
Practice areas
Financial ServicesFinTechCorporate / M&ABanking & FinancePaymentsFinancial Services RegulationIslamic FinanceTMT
Office
Expertise
Brokerage and tradingDerivatives and post-trade issuesEquities, debt, FX, funds and cryptoasset product linesCryptoasset regulation and blockchain projectsPayments and E-MoneyPeer-to-peer lending and crowdfundingCollective Investment SchemesConsumer credit and financeEarly-stage (Seed, Series A) funding for technology firmsIslamic finance (Murabaha, Sukuk)
Admissions
- Qualified as a lawyer in 1992 (with Clifford Chance)