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What impact will the FCA’s consolidation and ongoing advice reviews have on buyers and sellers of advice firms in 2025? In this FREE 60-minute webinar, we ask acquirers, sellers and sector industry experts how both reviews, initiated by the regulator, will challenge and change the M&A landscape.
Key questions answered in this webinar include how the FCA’s reviews could:
- Block or modify proposed mergers.
- Lead to more comprehensive due diligence processes.
- Impact on the timeline and process of M&A deals in 2025
- Influence the valuation of target firms.
- Impose new regulatory requirements post-consolidation.
- Force consolidators to invest far more in compliance systems, technologies and processes
More about Simon Goryl
Simon is the Advisory Director at Square 4 and supports firms across financial services with regulatory change; risk management; governance and controls design and implementation; strategy, policy and process development.
Simon has a wealth of experience leading advisory teams across all financial services verticals and has led and implemented various significant regulatory change projects.
More about Luke Wooton
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For the last 10 years Luke has been responsible for supporting a wide range of UK financial services business to navigate complex regulatory, customer and operational challenges. Prior to joining Square 4, Luke spent several years operating in Senior Leadership / Executive level roles with overall accountability for the Advisory function as well as the wider market and commercial strategy for a prominent UK professional services business.
As a Client Relationship Director at Square 4, Luke brings together a deep understanding of the UK FS regulatory landscape alongside experience of delivering pragmatic advisory, L&D and operational solutions to the Wealth Management sector, ensuring that we are well placed to partner with our clients and consistently deliver great outcomes.
Outside of work Luke enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two daughters the most, which increasingly involves watching a variety of sport and dance-based activities from the side-lines! Also, once a keen sportsman himself, he still finds time to get out in rowing boats and on road bikes regularly.
Crucial to the success of any individual project and building of a long-term relationship is a real focus on providing honest, pragmatic advice to build a solution that delivers good customer outcomes, whilst also mitigating costs and regulatory exposure.
My promise to any current or prospective client is that we will never cut corners, but always seek to minimise the cost and resource burden of delivering on your consumer duty, customer operations (i.e., complaints) and remediation challenges.
Currently a Director at Square 4, where the capability, experience and desire to do the right thing in support of our clients with a range of Conduct Risk, Consumer Duty, Complaints and Remediation related initiatives, is second to none.
More about Ricky McKinney
Ricky McKinney is the UK Risk & Compliance Director at Royal London, where Ricky leads a strong 2nd line team. Prior to that, Ricky served as the Risk & Compliance Director at Positive Solutions and held various senior management roles in Compliance, T&C, and Risk.
Ricky also has experience as a Credit Analyst at Thomson Finance Pty Ltd, an Account Manager at Standard Chartered Bank/Lloyds TSB Asset Finance, and a Pension Support Analyst at Abbey National Financial Investments Services.
Ricky holds an MSc in Financial Services Risk Operations from Glasgow Caledonian University and a degree in Business Finance from Swinburne University of Technology.
