Connor Williamson

Connor Williamson has a wide-ranging financial institutions and regulatory practice, with extensive experience advising insurers, asset and wealth managers, banks, payment institutions, credit rating agencies, non-bank lenders and financial sponsors on transactional and stand-alone advisory matters. Mr. Williamson also advises financial and non-financial institutions on compliance with U.K. and EU sanctions.

Before joining Skadden, Mr. Williamson practiced at a leading law firm in London, where his experience included advising:

• Direct Line Insurance Group plc on its recommended acquisition by Aviva plc
• Deutsche Bank AG on its recommended all-cash offer for Numis Corporation plc
• Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVBUK) on the consequences for its own financial position following its parent, Silicon Valley Bank, being placed into receivership by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Bank of England subsequently announcing that it intended to place SVBUK into a Bank Insolvency Procedure
• Allianz on its joint venture with Sanlam to combine their current and future operations across Africa
• Nucleus Financial Platforms, and HPS Investment Partners as a major shareholder of the Nucleus group, on its acquisition of Third Financial (a leading investment platform and wealth management software provider)
• Dalmore Capital on its acquisition by Royal London
• Fidante on a new strategic partnership with Fulcrum Asset Management
• Moody’s Corporation on its acquisition of:
  • Global Credit Rating Company Limited
  • a majority equity stake in Middle East Rating & Investors Service, an Egyptian domestic credit rating agency
• Vodafone Group plc on the combination of Vodafone UK and Three UK
• an electronic money institution on certain breaches of U.K. and EU sanctions and engagement with sanctions authorities
• regulated entities in relation to reporting obligations under U.K. sanctions
• entities in the receipt of OFSI and OFAC licences in the context of M&A transactions and Part VII banking business transfers