QALID MOHAMED’s practice focuses on advising financial market participants on a wide range of UK and EU regulatory matters. He regularly advises investment managers on structuring and marketing of alternative investment funds, on matters relating to UK and EU sustainable finance (including UK SDR, EU SFDR, and EU Taxonomy), and on the regulatory regimes governing trading of securities and other financial instruments (MiFID II, MAR, Short Selling Regulation, EMIR).
Qalid has significant experience in the area of prudential regulation, and regularly advises financial institutions on their regulatory capital and liquidity requirements, on governance and remuneration requirements, and on group and capital structuring in an M&A and corporate reorganization context.
Prior to joining Sidley, Qalid practiced in the London office of an international law firm. During this time, Qalid completed a secondment to a leading global investment bank, where he advised on various aspects of the bank’s post-Brexit regulatory structure, with a particular focus on perimeter issues relating to the cross-border provision of investment services into the EU.
Qalid is a frequent participant in industry conferences and events on topics related to financial services regulation. He has published several articles and book chapters on financial regulation, including with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Edward Elgar.
He is a social mobility ambassador for the Law Society of England and Wales; a Churchill Fellow (researching the use of technology (in particular AI and gamification) as a means of advancing financial education in UK schools); and a former trustee of the legal charity, Public Law Project. Qalid recently completed a Master’s in Law and Finance (with a focus on Finance) at the University of Oxford, where he was an All Souls/Merton College scholar.