Colin Bamford

 

Date of birth:

28 August 1950

Contact details:

3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP. 

Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900.  Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911.  LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).

Email colinbamford@southsquare.com.  Web www.southsquare.com

Areas of practice:

Financial transactions, capital market structure and transactions, international and domestic securities dealing systems, monetary law and financial services law.

 

Education:

Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn

 

Trinity Hall Cambridge (1968-71)

Scholar

First Class Honours in Law

 

College of Law

Solicitors’ Finals (Hons)

 

Professional career:

 

1972-74                    Articled Clerk

Herbert Oppenheimer Nathan & Vandyk, EC2, one of the country’s largest law  firms.

                                                                                            

1974-77             Assistant solicitor with HONV, working in its Corporate Department, acting for public companies, securities firms and banks.

 

1977-88             Partner in HONV specialising in corporate finance and project finance.  After 1985 I concentrated on banking and the securities industry.

 

1988-93             I moved in 1988 to Richards Butler, another large international law firm, where I was appointed head of the Finance and Banking Department, In 1991 I was elected to the partnership board.

 

1993-Mar           In August 1993 I was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the Financial

2002                   Law Panel. The FLP was established by the Bank of England and the City Corporation to examine issues of legal uncertainty that affect wholesale financial markets. Although the FLP worked closely with Government departments and agencies and with market participants, its defining characteristic was its independence, from private sector interests as well as from Government and regulators.

 

May 2002           Called to the Bar

 

Personal:

Married 1975 Nirmala Rajah, daughter of the late Hon. Mr Justice Rajah of Singapore

                                2 sons, 1 daughter (respectively 24, 18 and 14 years old)

 

Appointments and Outside Interests:

Honorary Fellow                                                Society for Advanced Legal Studies

 

Fellow                                                                   Royal Society of Arts

 

Member of Advisory Board                               New Hall, Cambridge

 

Member of Advisory Board                               Society for Advanced Legal Studies

 

Member of Advisory Board                               Centre of Corporate Law Studies

                                                                               Institute of Advanced Legal Studies              

(University of London)

 

Deputy Chairman                                               Centre for Financial Regulation

Advisory Committee                                          Cass Business School, City University

 

Member and former Vice-Chairman,             International Bar Association

Sub-Committee on International

Financial Law Reform

 

Former Member of Banking Law                    City of London Law Society

Sub-Committee

 

Member of Executive Committee                    Old Chiswick Protection Society

(former Chairman)                                                          

 

External Examiner                                              University of London

                                                                              

Member of Editorial Board                               “The Company Lawyer”

 

Member of Editorial Advisory Board               “European Financial Services Law”

 

Member of Executive Editorial Board             “International Journal of Disclosure and

                                                                               Governance”

 

 

Publications:

Contributed chapters to the following books:

 

Title                                                                                                                     Editors

 

Tolley’s Company Law (not current edition)                                                               

 

European Competition Law Annual 1999                                                   Ehlermann & Everson

 

European Economic and Monetary Union:                                                  Andenas

The Institutional Framework

 

Regulating Financial Services and Markets                                                Ferran and Goodhart

In the 21st Century

 

Developments in European Company Law                                                Rider and Andenas

 

 

I have also published numerous articles and papers in academic and professional journals.

 

In addition, I wrote or co-wrote most of the technical publications of The Financial Law Panel in the period 1993-2002.