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Fiona Henderson

Partner

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Fiona Henderson

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
6 Queens Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4ZT
United Kingdom
Languages English

Fiona is a Partner in the Banking Team. 

She acts for a range of clients including fintechs, corporates, clearing banks, funds, and private equity sponsors in relation to cross border and domestic, syndicated and bilateral funding transactions. She specialises in fintech, tech finance, and digital assets. 

Fiona is also part of the specialist embedded finance team at CMS. She advises clients across a range of embedded finance products including: B2B BNPL, B2C BNPL, embedded lending and payments, revenue-based financing, income share arrangements, and embedded insurance.

She is dual-qualified in England & Wales and Scotland. 

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"Fiona is an excellent lawyer and technician. Her attention to detail is second to none whilst always looking through a commercial lens. She has a great art of being able to distil complex issues and drafting into simple parts."

Client Feedback

"She is absolutely super to work with, demonstrated by her sector expertise and banking transactional knowledge, truly excellent deal and project management skills, and highly evident enthusiasm and work ethos to provide top level service and legal expertise."

Client Feedback

"Fiona is an excellent lawyer and technician. Her attention to detail is second to none whilst always looking through a commercial lens. She has a great art of being able to distil complex issues and drafting into simple parts."

Client Feedback

"She is absolutely super to work with, demonstrated by her sector expertise and banking transactional knowledge, truly excellent deal and project management skills, and highly evident enthusiasm and work ethos to provide top level service and legal expertise."

Client Feedback

Publications

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Lectures list

  • 2021 - lecturer on Intellectual Property Transactions: Security over Intellectual Property at UCL
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Education

  • 2020 - Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (‘QLTS’) and admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales.
  • 2013 - Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.
  • 2012 - LL.B., University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen.
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Expertise

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27/02/2024
Law Commission’s draft Digital Assets Bill – welcome news for the UK
Following an extensive consultation and publication of its final report in June 2023, the Law Commission has now published its draft Digital Assets Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill is designed “to ensure...
Regzone Banking & Finance
26/02/2024
Law Commission’s draft Digital Assets Bill – welcome news for the UK
Following an extensive consultation and publication of its final report in June 2023, the Law Commission has now published its draft Digital Assets Bill (the “Bill”). The Bill is designed “to ensure...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
13/02/2024
2024 FinTech Predictions and Themes
This was article was first published in February 2024 in DIGIT News. While the economic landscape in 2023 remained challenging, 2024 will bring its own set of challenges and defining developments. Our...
Publication
31/10/2023
Taking security in relation to e-money and e-money accounts
This article first appeared in Thomson Reuters Practical Law, Oct 2023 Key takeaways:se­cur­ity can be taken over e-money and e-money accountse-money accounts cannot be blocked in the same way that traditional...
Publication
04/10/2023
The Funding Journey: Debt and/or equity – the ingredients to success
At all stages of a business’ lifecycle funding will never be too far away from the top of the agenda around the Board table. Join our expert speakers, Fiona Henderson and Bruce Harvie, for an interactive...
Event Webinar
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.
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24/05/2023
Moving on with moveable security in Scotland
The long-awaited reform of the law on taking security over moveable property in Scotland is underway, following the passing of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Bill (the “Bill”) on 9 May 2023...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
24/05/2023
Energy Transition: a supply chain focus on managing opportunities and risks
The inaugural CMS supply chain conference will take place on Wednesday 24 May. Join us for a half-day ses­sion where we will cover a wide variety of is­sues, rel­ev­ant to in-house legal rep­res­ent­at­ives...
Event Legal
28/04/2023
Digital Assets: Non-Fungible Tokens
CMS has collaborated with UK Finance to deliver a report on NFTs and the broader digital assets ecosystem. From how digital assets actually work to how they are regulated and how they can be used by financial...
Publication
31/03/2023
Revenue based financing and responsible lending
This article was first published in the March 2023 edition of the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law. Fiona Henderson and Laura Collins discuss what steps revenue-based financing...
Publication
08/02/2023
E-money and e-money accounts - a guide for lenders
The development of the fintech sector over the last ten years has transformed payment systems with more individuals and businesses moving away from cash payments to using electronic money (“e-money”)...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
07/02/2023
E-money and e-money accounts – a guide for lenders
The development of the fintech sector over the last ten years has transformed payment systems with more individuals and businesses moving away from cash payments to using electronic money (“e-money”)...
Publication
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