Banking, Finance and Securities Consolidated Supervision: How financial regulators cooperate in a global world

As a corporate attorney working with clients ranging from start-up entrepreneurs to institutional investors and established companies, Jeremy takes a collaborative, client-focused approach to helping clients understand legal and business risks, and offers practical guidance to help them achieve their strategic objectives.

Jeremy concentrates his practice on counseling investors (primarily venture capital funds and angel investors) in connection with their debt and equity investments in early-stage and growth-stage companies. He also regularly advises clients on entity formation and structuring, securities law compliance and disclosure, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling. Jeremy prepares, reviews, and advises his clients on transaction documents and facilitating transactions from due diligence and negotiation through closing.

Jeremy’s clients are from a variety of industries. His venture capital work focuses primarily on technology and software-related investments (such as AI and virtual reality technology) and includes representing founders and issuers in startup and capital-raising efforts. He has a growing practice in guiding transactions related to investments in digital assets, blockchain, and Web3. Jeremy also has significant experience in the structuring and formation of real estate joint ventures between institutional investors and developers, spanning sectors including multifamily, senior housing, industrial and healthcare. He also has experience with clients in the automotive, healthcare, and manufacturing industries. His experience includes advising both U.S. and non-U.S. companies.

Yap Wai Ming is a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He counsels clients on a broad range of corporate transactions, with a focus on merger and acquisition transactions, covering both public and private transactions, fund management, and general corporate and commercial transactions. Wai Ming’s experience spans more than 35 years of managing sophisticated corporate transactions in Singapore and Malaysia, advising major corporations on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), takeovers, delistings, privatizations, and corporate restructuring and reorganizations.

Partner in the Swiss lawfirm MLL Legal, based in the Zurich office. Advises on regulatory issues and contractual aspects relating to the financial market industry and broad experience across acquisition and project-financing transactions, general corporate work and M&A in the banking sector. Has been working on Fintech and is ambassador to Global Blockchain Business Council. Acts as board member for banks, security dealers and fund management companies.

David Sewell is a partner in the financial services regulatory practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.  Based in New York, David advises banks, nonbank financial institutions, and fintech companies on a wide range of federal and state banking and payments law and regulation.  He also has substantial experience advising financial institutions and others regarding the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, as well as compliance with trade and economic sanctions programs administered by OFAC.

David’s practice includes: handling charter and licensing matters involving state and federal regulatory agencies; advising on compliance with Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC regulations; supporting significant transactions involving regulated financial institutions; and representing clients before the Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, New York DFS, Treasury Department, and OFAC concerning investments, transactions, business activities, and supervisory and enforcement matters. 

Before returning to private practice in 2015, David spent six years as counsel in the legal department of the Federal Reserve, handling a wide variety of bank regulatory issues and enforcement actions. He also has worked in a senior role within the regulatory relations organization of JPMorgan Chase, where he led a team that was the chief point of contact for key US banking and securities regulators.  Prior to attending law school, David served in a variety of roles in the federal government, including as a senior congressional aide and, during the Clinton administration, on the White House Domestic Policy Council staff.

Minoru Aosaki is Director of Prudential Standards Office at the Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA), where he is responsible for the implementation of regulatory standards, including bank capital requirements (e.g. Basel III), operational resilience, and framework for systemically important banks. For over 10 years, he has been actively engaged in the global regulatory reforms as a member of various groups of the BCBS, the FSB and the IAIS.

He holds a LL.B. from Hitotsubashi University, a MPA from Syracuse University, and a LL.M. from Cornell Law School. He was a visiting fellow at Stanford University from 2010 to 2012, where he researched the causes of global financial crisis and published a paper on the cost-benefits of regulatory reform under different economic environments.