Martyn Hopper
Founder & Managing Director
Former regulator and City law-firm partner. Advises boards and senior executives on regulatory risk, governance and culture.
Biography
Martyn founded Martyn Hopper & Partners to bring together legal, regulatory and policy expertise in a way that helps organisations grow with integrity and clarity. He is one of the UK’s most experienced legal practitioners in financial services regulation, with more than three decades advising institutions, boards and senior executives on enforcement, governance and regulatory strategy.
He has acted for leading banks, asset managers, insurers and listed companies in the most significant regulatory investigations and enforcement actions of the past twenty years. His work ranges from high-stakes authorisation and licensing applications to internal investigations, supervisory interventions and crisis management — including major post-crisis and market-misconduct cases where legal, regulatory and reputational risks converge.
Drawing on this experience, Martyn now focuses increasingly on helping clients get things right before they go wrong: building systems, frameworks and cultures that anticipate regulatory expectations and support sustainable growth. His work combines deep insight into how and why failures occur with a multidisciplinary approach to designing regulation and compliance as part of business infrastructure.
Areas of focus
Board counsel on accountability and culture; enforcement and investigations; regulatory risk reviews and remediation; governance and control-framework design; regulatory strategy and stakeholder engagement.
Career
Partner and National Practice Head, Financial Regulation Group, Linklaters LLP · Partner, Herbert Smith LLP (Litigation Division, Financial Services Regulation) · Acting Head of Enforcement Law & Policy and Head of Market Integrity Group, Financial Services Authority · Government Legal Service · Barrister (Middle Temple, 1991) Practising Solicitor (2004).