Igor is a Counsel in our firm’s Amsterdam office and specialises in financial services regulatory law.
He is a member of the firm’s global financial institutions group and routinely advises a broad range of clients on many different financial services and regulatory issues, as well as on the regulatory aspects of complex transactions such as high profile M&A, IPOs and reorganisations.
He also has ample experience in dealing with the Dutch financial regulators (Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets / Dutch Central Bank) on various supervision related matters, including applications for authorisations, dispensations and fitness and propriety vetting procedures.
Igor's experience further includes advising issuers and underwriters on equity capital markets transactions and related financial markets regulation issues (including in relation to transparency, market abuse and prospectus requirements).
In the course of his career at Freshfields, Igor has worked for six months in the financial institutions group in our London office.
Igor is a native Dutch and Russian speaker and also speaks English, French, German and Spanish.