Rakshi is a non-contentious regulatory lawyer with a focus in financial services.
She advises clients across a wide range of regulatory matters in the financial services sector, helping them navigate evolving regulatory and compliance challenges.
Rakshi's experience includes advising on the UK regulatory perimeter and post-Brexit structuring, sustainable finance and ESG regulation, UK MiFID II, financial market infrastructure and payment systems, recovery and resolution frameworks, regulatory capital, regulatory considerations on M&A transactions, and authorisations, among other things.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- advising a European bank on the implementation of the FCA’s anti-greenwashing rule (the AGR) across their business*
- advising a US fintech on applicable payment services and e-money regulations in the UK*
- advising a European bank on the UK financial services compensation scheme and governance matters related to depositor protection rules*
- advising a consortium of lenders and payment service providers in relation to the creation of a new interbank payment system in the UK*
- advising a MENA central bank on developing recovery and resolution rules and regulations*
* Experience gained prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills
Sectors
Background
Prior to joining HSF, Rakshi was an associate at a Magic Circle law firm and worked in-house as a secondee at BNP Paribas.