Tepo Din

Tepo handles Financial Services matters (contentious regulatory and investigations), with particular expertise in investigations, regulatory enforcement and financial crimes (anti money laundering, economic sanctions, anti bribery and corruption, fraud and other white collar crime). He advises firms and individuals on internal and external investigations arising from the discovery of potential misconduct, as well as enforcement and disciplinary proceedings brought by regulators and prosecutors. He also provides guidance on financial crime compliance matters, including systems and controls. Tepo handles Employment matters, including the employment aspects of internal investigations, such as whistleblowing, internal disciplinary processes and relevant regulatory reporting requirements. He is a member of our ESG, Compliance & Investigations team. Before joining Temple Bright in 2024, Tepo worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Stephenson Harwood in the City, at the Financial Conduct Authority, and in-house at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. Most recently, he spent seven years at BNY, a major global bank, first as the EMEA Head of Litigation, Enforcement and Investigations and then as the head of the EMEA Financial Crimes legal team. Having been an instructing client of law firms for many years, Tepo has a deep understanding of what constitutes good client service.

Experience

Relevant experience at Temple Bright and previous firms includes:

• Conducting internal investigations and advising on high profile criminal and civil proceedings concerning dividend arbitrage.
• Advising on the response to the FCA’s first competition enforcement case.
• Leading on major regulatory enforcement proceedings in respect of outsourcing and regulatory reporting.
• Advising on internal investigations into possible regulatory breaches, criminal activity and employee misconduct, ensuring proportionate and cost-effective case management.
• Providing advice on UK and EU anti money laundering law and regulation, KYC and high risk jurisdictions.
• Advising on international economic sanctions, particularly those imposed by the UK, EU and US against Russia, as well as on other sanctions regimes. Providing guidance on ownership and control, licensing and regulatory compliance. Advising on litigation and dispute resolution issues that arise from economic sanctions.
• Delivering an effective platform for employees to report suspicious activity across the EMEA region, with accompanying resources, governance, policies and procedures.
• Leading the FCA’s investigations and settlements arising from a major bank’s LIBOR practices, including the first LIBOR enforcement outcome and proceedings before the Regulatory Decisions Committee.
• Leading FCA enforcement actions against a high profile private bank’s approach to AML and a financial institution’s sale of structured products.
• Preparing internal businesses, functions and individuals for legislative and regulatory change and advising on regulatory expectations.
• Advising on a complex international insurance dispute concerning potential coverage.
• Successfully defending against claims for damages arising from alleged price fixing.
• Dealing with a range of employment matters, including unfair dismissal, wages and pay claims, breach of contract, discrimination, victimisation and whistleblowing.
• Drafting policies and procedures on whistleblowing, speaking up, escalation and non-retaliation, as well as accompanying guidance on conduct incidents.