Colm Dawson

He advises clients on corporate and regulatory governance, preventing financial crime (anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, counter proliferation financing and financial sanctions advice), economic substance, automatic exchange of information, data protection, and engaging with competent authorities. Colm is involved in assisting clients in preparing for and advising on inspection processes by regulators and engaging with clients and issuing bodies when breach notices or enforcement processes are initiated.

Colm regularly acts for asset managers, banks, fund-service providers, virtual-asset issuers, and service providers and insurers. He advises on a range of Cayman Islands, BVI specific and other globally applicable regulatory frameworks. Colm joined Walkers in 2018 spending three years in the Cayman Islands office prior to relocating to the Walkers Hong Kong Office in 2021, from where he oversaw the regulatory offering in the Singapore and Dubai offices.

He has experience across regulated financial services business, having spent extended client secondments in banking and asset management. Colm’s experience also includes regulatory permission and licensing applications and operational preparedness. He also has experience of change-of-control notifications on multi-jurisdictional projects. This includes preparing applications for banks, insurers, payment institutions, fund service providers, company managers, virtual asset service providers, and investment managers and advisors.