Colin Bamford

Colin Bamford graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1971. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1974 and worked for almost 20 years in the City, specialising in banking and financial services law.

In 1992, from the position as Head of the Finance Department of Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) he was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the Financial Law Panel, under the Chairmanship of the late Lord Donaldson. The remit of the FLP was to address systemic legal issues affecting international financial markets and to instigate change and improvement.

In 2002 he was admitted to the Bar and joined South Square, from where he has advised on a range of issues relating to the banking and securities industries.

He writes extensively on legal issues and is an executive editor of The Company Lawyer, as well as being a member of the editorial boards of two other periodicals. He has contributed chapters to several textbooks, including Tolly’s Company Law.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and a member of its Advisory Committee, an External Examiner at London School of Economics, a member of the committee of the Centre for Corporate Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

He is a former vice-chairman of the International Financial Law Reform Sub-committee of the international Bar Association, and of the Centre for Financial Regulation at the Cass Business School, City University, as well as being a former member of the Banking Law Sub-Committee of the City of London Law Society, and of the Advisory Committee of New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College).

He also holds appointment as one of the nominated English law arbitrators of Euroarbitrage.