With the whole world focusing on the coronavirus crisis for most of 2020, Brexit may have slipped to the back of many people’s minds. But with the end of the transition period just weeks away, now is the time to revisit preparations and consider the detailed impact of Brexit.
In this webinar, we brought together banking and markets experts from NatWest and AFME to outline some of the implications for how companies will be able to access financial services from 1 January next year and ways you can prepare and adjust before 2021.
Read the paper published by NatWest on the implications of Brexit for the delivery of financial services to corporates across Europe.
Speakers:
Shalini Sharma is General Counsel, NatWest Markets N.V. and Managing Legal Counsel, NatWest Markets Plc. She is the legal lead for Natwest Market’s Brexit programme. With over 20 years’ experience in financial markets and the NatWest Group, her responsibilities include a broad range of legal, regulatory and strategic matters, including advising the bank’s boards and sitting on several risk and executive committees. She has a degree in Law & Politics and an LLM from the London School of Economics.
Mike Slevin is a Managing Director in NatWest’s Corporates & Institutions business with responsibility for the Commercial Bank’s Brexit and European Transformation programmes. He has over 30 years banking experience and prior to his current role he ran the ACPM activities for the Commercial Bank. He also held a number of senior roles in the Group’s Markets business.
Andrew runs NatWest’s Corporate & Institutional business, which as well as having responsibility for the bank’s large corporate & institutional relationships, is also a centre of excellence for products including transaction services, rates and specialist financing including infrastructure, project finance, asset finance and leveraged finance. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the infrastructure and structured debt market, first as a lawyer and Allen and Overy and with Natwest since 2007.
During his time in finance, Andrew has been responsible for a number of market leading and innovative financings, including taking a number of UK infrastructure and utility businesses to new financing markets, leading continental Europe’s first structured infrastructure capital markets transaction as well as advising on a number of high profile new to market or acquisition financings. Andrew is currently a board member at our Nordic property leasing business.
Andrew grew up on a farm and is married to Sophie with 3 children. They spend much of their spare time in Norfolk, where Andrew is a Norwich City season ticket holder. He is also a keen cricketer and is a supporter of the Motor Neurone Disease Association and Thames Valley Air Ambulance.
James Kelly is Group Treasurer at Pearson, a FTSE 100 listed education company. James is responsible for Treasury, Insurance and Cash Management for the group. Since joining, James has done significant work to simplify it's financial operations including streamlining its FX operation and has undertaken over $1.5bn of early public debt repayments through market tender and make whole exercises. James recently led Pearson's debut ESG offering, refinancing it's loan facility to put a $1.2bn 5 year facility in place with a margin linked to the company's performance in advancing vocational education outside the UK.
Oliver Moullin is Managing Director and General Counsel at AFME where he leads AFME’s work on Brexit and Recovery & Resolution. He is also AFME’s Company Secretary. Oliver has over 15 years’ experience in financial services and prior to joining AFME he was a Senior Associate at the law firm Hogan Lovells. Oliver has a law degree from the University of Bristol.
Moderator:
James joined the ACT Policy & Technical team in September 2019 with 30 years’ experience of international finance, most recently within Group Treasury of Royal Dutch Shell plc as Head of Regulatory Affairs, Head of Compliance and Controller of Group Pensions. James is a qualified accountant (ACMA/CGMA), with a degree in Law & Politics, who has worked in UK, Africa, South America & Middle East. He has been CFO/Finance Manager of various entities in the energy, commodities, technology and not for profit sectors. James enjoys engaging with stakeholders and has contributed to many working groups, including the FSB’s Market Participants Group on reforming interest rate benchmarks.
This webinar, in association with NatWest, took place on Wednesday 2 December at 13:00 GMT.
