David Berman leads Covington’s financial services practice in EMEA. He advises a range of financial institutions on a broad spectrum of regulatory compliance matters and investigations, and frequently counsels boards and senior management teams on significant regulatory issues. He specializes in strategic issue prevention, tactical containment, and pragmatic resolution, and has an outstanding track-record of achieving optimal outcomes for clients.

David has extensive experience across a wide spectrum of investigations, regulatory compliance, and transactional issues. Areas of particular focus include: market conduct, whistle blows, culture and conduct, risk management, systems and controls, internal investigations, individual accountability, governance, financial crime, conflicts of interest, sponsor and NOMAD regimes, digital operational resilience, inducements, regulatory aspects of transactions, remediation and redress exercises, and conduct of business regulation generally. David is one of a select few lawyers to have acted, on multiple occasions, as a “skilled person” under Section 166 FSMA 2000.

Representative clients include: institutional investment managers, integrated investment banks, central banks, hedge funds, private equity houses, payments institutions, credit funds, consumer credit firms, clearing banks, large technology companies and corporates.

David is recommended by Chambers UK and Legal 500 UK as a leading practitioner for financial services regulatory matters. He is often consulted as a subject-matter expert by industry bodies and regulators and is a frequent speaker at financial sector conferences and events.