Profile
Tim Dolan's practice focuses on UK and European financial services regulation. With a strong background in working as a lawyer at international financial service regulators Tim has spent more than 18 years as a London based partner at global law firms. At the heart of Tim's practice is advising on whether institutions and fund structures are subject to UK and European regulation and on advising on the interpretation of the Financial Conduct Authority’s and the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s rule books. He supports firms and individuals when they need to engage with financial services regulators (including with breach; change of control and waiver notifications as well as authorisations) and helps his clients (fund managers; investment firms; banks; and payment firms) prepare for regulatory change.
The Legal 500 UK’s 2024 edition includes client feedback that Tim is known for 'his ability to combine explanations of highly technical regulatory guidance with pragmatic advice’. The 2023 edition stated that ‘Tim Dolan is an excellent communicator and delivers quality work quickly, very helpful and responsive’. The 2022 edition recommends him as ‘excellent. Very client oriented and pragmatic. Extensive knowledge and experience and able to help navigate complexities of FCA regulation’. Clients of Tim’s in the 2021 edition stated: ‘Tim Dolan is a very experienced and accessible regulatory lawyer’ and: ‘Very approachable, available and knowledgeable, with experience of many matters’.
Concentrations
- Fund Formations
- Private Equity
- Mergers & Acqusitions
- Joint Ventures
Capabilities
Experience
- Advising on regulatory requirements under the new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation for an article 9 fund and supporting multiple funds marketed into Europe under article 8 of the SFDR.
- Issuing opinions as to whether joint ventures and funds amount to collective investment schemes and alternative investment funds.
- Advising multiple fund managers as to how they should market in the UK, Europe, and globally.
- Obtaining UK and change of control approvals on multiple corporate transactions for clients.
- Conducting vendor and purchaser financial services regulatory due diligence in connection with corporate acquisitions.
- Advising institutions on the impact of the FCA’s Senior Managers Regime and helping prepare statements of responsibilities for individuals.
- Assisting institutions to understand the impact of the FCA’s consumer duty.
- Supporting institutions who have been subject to FCA Skilled Persons’ reports.
- Advising institutions on when information is inside information under the Market Abuse Regime and helping to structure robust Chinese Wall arrangements.
- Advising several global firms as to when they are conducting insurance mediation in the UK and in Europe and what structures they need to put in place.
- Advising payment services providers on their internal systems and controls.
- Advising institutions on anti-money laundering and sanctions requirements in the UK.
- Advanced Associate, UK Financial Services Authority, 2003-2005
- Secretary to the Panel, New Zealand Takeovers Panel, 2002-2003
- Solicitor, New Zealand Securities Commission, 1999-2003
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Legal 500 UK
- Real Estate Funds, 2024-2025
- Financial Services: Contentious, 2024-2026
- Financial Services: Non-Contentious/Regulatory, 2008-2023
- Listed, Chambers UK Guide, Financial Services: Non-Contentious Regulatory, 2026
- The Haberdashers’ Company, (Member Court of Assistants) 2021-Present
- Governor and Chair of the Girls’ School Advisory Group, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Elstree Schools, 2016-Present
Credentials
- LL.B., University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- B.A., University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- England and Wales