THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (FSA) is losing one of its most senior lawyers, David Mayhew, who is to join law firm Herbert Smith, according to this morning's paperse.
Mayhew was leading advocate at the City regulator and its former acting director of enforcement, reports the Guardian.. At Herbert Smith he will be reunited with other former FSA staff, including Martyn Hopper who represented former Shell chairman Sir Philip Watts in a case involving the FSA. Margaret Cole, FSA head of enforcement, said: "The FSA has greatly valued David's commitment and enthusiasm over the past four years and his interim management of the enforcement division." Unusually for such a sensitive gamekeeper-turned-poacher move, there will be no “purdah” period between the t...
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