Academic Staff

 

Professor Julia Black is currently Pro-Director for Research at LSE. She joined the Law Department at the London School of Economics in 1994. She completed her first degree in Jurisprudence and her DPhil at Oxford University. Her primary research interest is regulation. In 2001-2 she received a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and in 2007-8 was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She has written extensively in the area of regulation, and also advised policy makers, consumer bodies and regulators on issues of institutional design and regulatory policy. She is also a research associate of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), based at LSE and co-chairs CARR’s Regulators’ Forum with Professor Martin Lodge. Julia is a member of the Academic Advisory Group for the Bank of England’s Fair and Effective Markets Review (2014-15). She is also a lay member of the Board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and chair of its Standards Committee. Email:  j.black@lse.ac.uk.

 

Dr Jo Braithwaite is an Associate Professor in international commercial finance law, having joined the LSE in September 2008. She has a PhD from the University of London, a LLM degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Thouron scholar and a BA(Hons) from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a Modern Law Review Scholarship during her PhD. Before undertaking her PhD, she qualified as a solicitor and practised in a City law firm. In previous teaching roles, she has taught debt finance, civil litigation, legal methods and writing and public law. Her current and ongoing research interests relate to the use of private law in the international markets, with a particular focus on the use of standard form contracts. Email: j.p.braithwaite@lse.ac.uk

 

Dr Carsten Gerner-Beuerle joined the LSE in September 2009 and is an Associate Professor.  Before coming to LSE he worked as the German Academic Exchange Service Lecturer at King’s College London and as a researcher at Humboldt University Berlin. Carsten studied law and economics at Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of London. He holds degrees in law and economics from Humboldt University, the University of Minnesota and the University of London. He is also admitted to the bar in Germany. Email: c.gerner-beuerle@lse.ac.uk

 

Professor David Kershaw joined the LSE in 2006. Prior to joining the LSE he was a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law at the University of Warwick between 2003-2006. He qualified as a Solicitor at Herbert Smith and practiced corporate law with Wolf Theiss & Partners, Vienna and in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling in New York and London. He holds degrees from the University of Warwick and Harvard Law School.  He has written extensively on issues relating to corporate governance and takeovers, and his most recent book is Company Law in Context: Text and Materials (Oxford University Press, 2009).  Email: r.d.kershaw@lse.ac.uk

 

Dr David Murphy is founder and principal of rivast consulting, a leading financial risk management and regulatory consulting firm. He is the author of numerous articles on risk management, financial regulation and market infrastructure and has worked with central banks, investment banks and asset managers on derivatives, capital and market infrastructure issues. His most recent book, OTC Derivatives: Bilateral Trading and Central Clearing appeared from Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.

His prior roles include Global Head of Risk at ISDA, where he was responsible for all of ISDA’s activities relating to capital, risk management and accounting standards as well as leading ISDA’s research effort.

Before that, Dr. Murphy was the Chief Operating Officer at Merrill Lynch’s Reinsurance Group, and he has had held a number of other senior risk management roles in leading banks and broker/dealers.

 

Professor Michael Power is Professor of Accounting and Research Theme Director of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics, where he has worked since 1987.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and an Associate member of the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation. He is a member of the risk management committee of the London School of Economics and, since May 2005, is a non-executive Director of St James’s Place plc where he is chair of the Risk Committee.  In 2009 he was awarded and honorary doctorate in Economics by the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.  Email: m.k.power@lse.ac.uk

 

Ms Sarah Paterson is an Assistant Professor of law at the LSE where she teaches and researches corporate insolvency and restructuring law. Before joining the LSE, Sarah was a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency Group of Slaughter and May, with whom she retains a senior consultancy. She has written widely on the topic of financial distress, including the implications of increasing access to the high yield market by UK issuers for debt restructuring, the implications of changes in the finance market for debt restructuring theory, valuation in financial institution bail-in and developing cooperation between the finance industry and the state in modern markets. She is a member of the Council of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association, the technical committee of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association, Chair of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association Insolvency & Restructuring Scholarship Committee and a member of the General Technical Committee of R3. Email: S.Paterson@lse.ac.uk

 

Deborah A. Sabalot has advised a wide range of financial sector clients on UK and international banking and financial services regulatory and compliance issues. She was a co-opted member of the Securities and Futures Authority's Conduct of Business Sub-Committee from 1992 to 2001 and she is currently an adviser to the Electronic Money Association, a trade association representing the members of the e-money industry.

Deborah is also the consultant editor of the Butterworth’s Financial Services Law Handbook, the eighth edition of which was published in 2007 and she has contributed many articles and has spoken at a wide range of conferences in London and abroad. She advised Lords Sharman and Newby in relation to the passage of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 in the House of Lords. Deborah has served as a member of the Financial Services Authority's Working Party on Client Money and Assets and she has contributed to working groups of the Financial Markets Law Committee and its predecessor, the Financial Law Panel.

Deborah A. Sabalot Regulatory Consulting was founded in March 2005 to undertake independent legal and regulatory services. Prior to that, Deborah Sabalot was a partner of PwC Legal, the associated law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2005. Previously she had held an “of counsel” role at Lovells from 2000 to 2002. Deborah was Director of Regulatory Services at KPMG from 1995 and was a senior lawyer in Clifford Chance's Financial Services Group from 1988 to 1995.  Email: dsabalot@netcomuk.co.uk

 

Watkin Samuel is a fifteen year post qualified solicitor specialising in financial services regulation and compliance. During this period he has held a variety of related roles at leading city institutions including Clifford Chance, NM Rothschild, Fidelity Investments, the Hypo Real Estate Group and Ares Management Limited. Product experience includes lending, investment banking, investment management (retail and alternative), private equity, multi product trading and money services business. He is currently Head of Compliance at Flagstone Investment Management.

For the past ten years Watkin has also lectured part-time at the London School of Economics and spoken at various industry conferences. In 2010 Watkin was nominated Compliance Officer of the Year and was Chair of the British Property Federation Regulatory Committee between 2012 and January 2014. In December 2014 Watkin was included in the FT’s Power Part Time 50 List and he is also a serving Magistrate on the Central Kent Bench.  Email wsamuel@aresmgt.com

 

Mr Simon Witney is a PhD student at LSE, working on a research project which looks at the corporate governance mechanisms in private equity-backed companies. Before joining the PhD programme, Simon was a partner with international law firm King & Wood Mallesons, where he advised private equity houses and their investors on investments, fund structuring and regulation. He is a past Chair of the Tax, Legal and Regulatory Committee of Invest Europe (the pan-European private equity and venture capital industry association) and of the Legal Committee of the BVCA (the UK's private equity industry association). In that capacity he has worked on a number of regulatory projects in recent years, including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. Email S.R.Witney@lse.ac.uk

 

Edmund-Philipp Schuster joined LSE in 2010 and is now an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining the Law Department, he practiced corporate law with Baker & McKenzie LLP in London and Vienna. From 2004 through 2009 he worked for the Austrian Takeover Commission, serving as head of office (2006-2008) and legal consultant (2008-2009). Edmund taught company and commercial law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and at the University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna. He also worked as a company law expert on an EU project providing pre-accession technical assistance to the Republic of Albania. Edmund holds law degrees from the University of Vienna and the LSE. Email: e.schuster@lse.ac.uk

 

Dr Roel Theissen (1968) has worked in the area of banking supervision since 1997; first at the Dutch banking supervisor, then on secondment to CEBS (the Committee of European Banking Supervisors, which has since become the European Banking Authority). He has focused on regulation and policy development both domestically (in the Netherlands) and cross border (within the EU and in the Basel context). His investigation of banks and their functioning also led to work on cross-sectoral cooperation with insurance and securities supervisors. 

Since 2009 he has been lecturing and writing on prudential supervision in the financial sector. Apart from prudential supervision on banks in the EU, this relates to related areas including insurance supervision, the back office of trading venues, conduct of business policy, and the interaction between the EU, its member states and third countries. Main publications include a handbook on the content of prudential banking supervision (EU Banking Supervision), and an analysis of how to define and achieve the goals of banking supervision (Are EU Banks Safe?). Roel Theissen also provides consultancy services on prudential supervision. He can be reached at contact@prudentialsupervision.eu