Lodewijk D Van Setten

Lodewijk van Setten is Special Counsel to Covington & Burling, the US law firm, in London. He has wide-ranging experience in advising financial institutions and institutional investors on all operational, regulatory, and legal aspects of transactions in the (secondary) financial markets, including in areas such as investment management, custody, brokerage, and (trans)national trading, clearing, and settlement systems. In addition, he has particular experience in structuring unregulated (hedge)...See more

Lodewijk van Setten is Special Counsel to Covington & Burling, the US law firm, in London. He has wide-ranging experience in advising financial institutions and institutional investors on all operational, regulatory, and legal aspects of transactions in the (secondary) financial markets, including in areas such as investment management, custody, brokerage, and (trans)national trading, clearing, and settlement systems. In addition, he has particular experience in structuring unregulated (hedge) funds, including related repurchase/securities lending transactions and prime brokerage arrangements, and on-exchange/OTC derivative transactions. Before joining Covington & Burling, Lodewijk served as director and European Counsel for State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the U.S. based institutional investment manager, in London. At SSgA, he was responsible for the legal support of all aspects of SSgA's institutional investment business in Europe. Prior to joining SSgA, he worked as a banking and securities lawyer for a leading international law firm in Amsterdam. Lodewijk holds an LL.B and a Ph.D (Thesis: Private rights of action against broker-dealers and investor protection) from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and an LL.M from Duke University (U.S.), where he was a Special Staff Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative International Law. He regularly publishes on various topics relating to transactions in the financial markets and teaches these topics in the graduate programme at King's College (London), where he is a Visiting Professor. He was admitted as advocaat in the Netherlands in 1993, as attorney at law in the state of New York in 1994, and as solicitorin England and Wales in 2002. See less