London—Dentons has hired leading financial services lawyer Greg McEneny as a partner in its London office. Greg joins from Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) where he is a member of the Senior Legal Leadership team and General Counsel of LBG's non ring-fenced bank, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets (LBCM). 

For over 20 years, Greg has been at the forefront of legal and regulatory developments in derivatives, structured products and capital markets. Over the last decade, he has focused on the development of a safe, transparent and efficient legal and regulatory regime for the wholesale financial markets. He has been involved, formally and informally, with the conduct and prudential regulatory responses in the UK to the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.

At LBG, he has led on numerous large-scale legal and regulatory change projects impacting the financial markets businesses since 2008. 

Greg's particular areas of expertise are banking structural reform including ring-fencing legislation, the transformation of Reference Rates, the tighter regulation on derivatives transaction reporting, the adoption of global codes of conduct in the short-term money markets and foreign exchange markets, and cross border activity – in particular the post-Brexit landscape for the financial markets and infrastructure participants across Europe. Greg is highly regarded in the financial services legal and business community and is a member of several legal and regulatory committees as well as the Financial Markets Law Committee. 

Paul Holland, Head of Dentons' UK Banking and Finance practice and partner, said, "Greg is a great addition to our non-contentious financial regulatory practice. He has the unique advantage of not only understanding a complex area of law but also how such advice needs to be implemented within a bank. He is well placed to advise clients on the challenges of structural reform that are impacting the UK wholesale markets sector. We are delighted to be welcoming Greg to the Firm."

Greg's hire follows the London hires of four partners in 2019, restructuring and insolvency partner Richard Pallot-Cook, bank lending and acquisition finance partner Simon Middleton, and derivatives partners Yusuf Battiwala and Luke Whitmore. Over the past few years, Dentons has also strengthened its UK securitisation and structured finance capabilities with the hire of partners Ed Hickman, Peter Voisey and Martin Sharkey, as well as grown its debt capital markets expertise with the addition of partners Nik Colbridge, Cameron Half and Nick Hayday. The Firm has also enhanced its corporate trustee capabilities with the recruitment of partner Kitty Lloyd.

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