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Aidan Campbell

Partner

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Aidan Campbell

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1 West Regent Street
Glasgow
G2 1AP
United Kingdom
Languages English
Banking & Finance

Aidan Campbell is a partner in the Financial Services and Products Group with over 16 years of experience of the regulation of financial services in the UK.

He has a broad range of expertise in financial services regulation and works with a wide range of financial services institutions, including: insurers, banks, asset managers, investment funds, friendly societies, building societies and financial advisors, to deliver practical solutions and achieve ambitious goals and challenges, both in terms of product innovation and distribution, in a highly technical and complex area which is constantly evolving.

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CMS ‘provides excellent advice, leveraging its significant industry knowledge and experience’. .. sizeable cross-office team ………

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The key contacts on the retail funds side are … and the ‘commercially focused’ Aidan Campbell

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CMS ‘provides excellent advice, leveraging its significant industry knowledge and experience’. .. sizeable cross-office team ………

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The key contacts on the retail funds side are … and the ‘commercially focused’ Aidan Campbell

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Relevant experience

  • The sale of Virgin Money's banking subsidiary, Church House Trust and a related intra group transfer of a deposit book.
  • The acquisition of Newton’s private client business by Standard Life Wealth.
  • A number of distribution agreements between RBS and Aviva relating to the distribution of a wide range of protection insurance policies and pension products.
  • Distribution arrangements for life insurance products together with associated back to back reinsurance treaties.
  • The transfer of a deposit book held under a white labelling arrangement.
  • An introducer arrangement between and a third party IFA for wealth customers requiring investment advice.
  • The acquisition of the Stocktrade share dealing business by Alliance Trust Savings.
  • Terms of business with financial advisors in respect of the distribution of a bank’s mortgage products.
  • The administration arrangements in respect of an existing Child Trust Fund book and new Junior ISA product offering.
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Education

  • 1996 – Law, Dip LP, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 1995 – Law, LLB Hons, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
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Funds

Aidan Campbell is a partner in the Financial Services and Products Group and specialises in investment funds.

He has over 16 years of experience of working with fund providers and distributors to deliver practical solutions and achieve ambitious goals and challenges, both in terms of product innovation and distribution, in a highly technical and complex area which is constantly evolving.

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CMS ‘provides excellent advice, leveraging its significant industry knowledge and experience’. .. sizeable cross-office team ………

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The key contacts on the retail funds side are … and the ‘commercially focused’ Aidan Campbell

Legal 500

CMS ‘provides excellent advice, leveraging its significant industry knowledge and experience’. .. sizeable cross-office team ………

Legal 500

The key contacts on the retail funds side are … and the ‘commercially focused’ Aidan Campbell

Legal 500

Relevant experience

  • Numerous regulated fund launches, reorganisations, rationalisations and fund acquisitions and disposals, including schemes of arrangement by Investment Managers and Life Companies.
  • Implementation of the Alternative Investment Funds Directive.
  • Implementation of the UK protected cell regime.
  • Implementation of the various updates to the UCITS Directive.
  • The launch of a range of innovative capital protected funds.
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Education

  • 1996 – Law, Dip LP, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 1995 – Law, LLB Hons, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
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Insurance

Aidan Campbell is a partner in the Financial Services and Products Group and specialises in the distribution of insurance products.

He has a wide range of experience of working with insurers and distributors to deliver practical solutions and achieve ambitious goals and challenges, both in terms of product innovation and distribution 

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CMS ‘provides excellent advice, leveraging its significant industry knowledge and experience’. .. sizeable cross-office team ………

Legal 500

The key contacts on the retail funds side are … and the ‘commercially focused’ Aidan Campbell

Legal 500

CMS ‘provides excellent advice, leveraging its significant industry knowledge and experience’. .. sizeable cross-office team ………

Legal 500

The key contacts on the retail funds side are … and the ‘commercially focused’ Aidan Campbell

Legal 500

Relevant experience

  • Distribution agreements between RBS and Aviva relating to the distribution of a wide range of protection insurance policies and pension products.
  • Introducer arrangements between a bank and a leading professional services firm in relation to the distribution of a number of products, including home insurance, to that firm’s employees
  • Distribution arrangements for life insurance products together with associated back to back reinsurance treaties.
  • White labelled distribution agreements relating to life insurance products.
  • The extension and termination of a bank's distribution agreements with various insurers in respect of mortgage protection life insurance policies.
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Education

  • 1996 – Law, Dip LP, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 1995 – Law, LLB Hons, University of Glasgow, Glasgow
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Expertise

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08/02/2024
Future of Finance: regulatory briefings series 2024
Join us as we launch our in-person breakfast seminar series across London and Edinburgh. In these seminars, our Financial Services team will be discussing the latest regulatory developments affecting...
Event Legal
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Private placement rules and law in the United Kingdom
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Expert Guide Funds
05/01/2024
AIFM passporting in United Kingdom
1. EEA AIFMs Following the expiry of the transition period in respect of the arrangements for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on 31 December 2020, in the absence of agreement otherwise between the UK...
Expert Guide Funds
29/12/2023
UCITS Passporting - Summary table
Expert Guide Funds
07/12/2023
FCA’s Consultation Paper on Implementing the Overseas Funds Regime (“OFR”)
On 4 December, the FCA launched a consultation to implement the framework to enable non-UK domiciled funds to be marketed to UK retail investors under the OFR (“OFR recognised schemes”). We briefly...
Law-Now Funds
07/12/2023
FCA’s Consultation Paper on Implementing the Overseas Funds Regime (“OFR”)
On 4 December, the FCA launched a consultation to implement the framework to enable non-UK domiciled funds to be marketed to UK retail investors under the OFR (“OFR recognised schemes”). We briefly...
Regzone Funds
12/10/2023
FCA publishes consumer protection undertaking from e-money firm
On 4 October 2023, the FCA published a Notice of Undertaking (the “Un­der­tak­ing”) given under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (the “Act”). The Undertaking relates to the providing firm’s e-money...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
12/10/2023
FCA publishes consumer protection undertaking from e-money firm
On 4 October 2023, the FCA published a Notice of Undertaking (the “Un­der­tak­ing”) given under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (the “Act”). The Undertaking relates to the providing firm’s e-money...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
07/09/2023
What does consumer duty mean for Fintechs?
This article first appeared in DIGIT News, 5 September 2023. In this contributed piece for DIGIT, Aidan Campbell, partner; and Jamie Marshall, senior associate at CMS break down the cascading effects...
Publication
10/08/2023
Supporting the FinTech Community – Headline Sponsor of the FinTech Summit...
Scotland has its roots in financial services and is establishing itself as a FinTech hub. The CMS FinTech team works alongside clients at all stages of their lifecycle. We understand FinTech clients, working with many of our existing clients in this space when they were start-ups or scale-ups. We are leading advisors in FinTech, electronic money, distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, cyber security, privacy, and the use of social media by financial institutions. The FinTech ecosystem in Scotland continues to grow at pace, and CMS is committed to supporting Scotland's world class FinTechs. We were delighted to be the headline sponsor at the 2023 FinTech Summit.
Publication
11/04/2023
FCA publishes Notice of Undertaking and voices commitment to Consumer Duty
On 31 March 2023, the FCA published a Notice of Undertaking (the “Un­der­tak­ing”) given by Policy Excess Insure Ltd (trading as Nova Direct) (“Policy Excess Insure”) under the Consumer Rights Act...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
04/08/2022
FCA final rules challenge financial promotions of high-risk investments
What do the new rules say? The FCA has confirmed that it will implement the following changes (as stipulated in the January consultation) to the financial promotions rules (subject to any targeted changes...
Regzone Financial Services & Regulation
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