Ehsan Haque

Hamilton Capital Holding

Former Slaughter and May trainee Ehsan Haque has long been a senior adviser to organisations in the world of finance, with stints at Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and RBS under his belt, to name a few. In more recent years he has moved more solidly into fintech, taking on general counsel roles at start-ups LendingBlock and AlphaSwap before joining Hamilton Capital Holding in 2020 as group general counsel.

Hasque was first asked to build a legal and compliance function for the business from scratch; since then, he has been working on a major fintech and cryptocurrency project involving the creation of two global cryptocurrencies, an offshore cryptocurrency exchange and a global non-cash payment system. Haque managed a global team of lawyers across the UK, EU, US, Middle East and South East Asia, navigating very complex multi-jurisdictional legal issues: a Herculean task. Projects of this kind and scale do not happen every day in the UK legal market and when it becomes public its scale and significance will cause major waves.

As for 2022, new challenges await. Haque is now on gardening leave before taking up an exciting new position. Watch this space…