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Practice
Mr. Mackay is a corporate international lawyer and a partner of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in New York and also of their associate firm based in London. He focuses mainly on company and financial services law. He often works on transactions alongside not only his colleagues in the U.S. and the Middle East but also with his partners in Paris, Frankfurt and Milan. He mainly represents international businesses and overseas government entities, and also acts for a number of UK entrepreneurs with global ambitions. He is often involved in overseas jurisdictions (such as Bermuda, the Bahamas, Cayman Islands and the DIFC) where laws are based on English Law. Formerly, he was head of legal department at the London Stock Exchange and also head of legal department and a director of the venture capital organisation 3i plc.
Illustrations of legal work include: private placement memorandum, prospectus work, investment and subscription agreements (both debt and equity), fund structures, complex options and articles of association, stock exchange infrastructure agreements, broker agreements, clearing agreements, investment management agreements, joint venture agreements, franchise agreements, licensing agreements, limited partnership and limited liability partnership agreements, sale and purchase agreements, security documents and providing opinions on English law matters.
Mr. Mackay qualified as a solicitor in Scotland (1974) and in England (1981).
Education
MBA, Aston University, 1985
Certified Diploma in Finance and Accounting, Glasgow College of Commerce, 1974
LL.B., (Hons), Aberdeen University, 1972
Associations
UK representative on legal committee of EuropeanIssuers (which represents some 9,200 EU quoted companies with a market value of about €8,500,000,000,000).
Member of the UK Government Companies Act Implementation Advisory Group.
Member of the Advisory Board to UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board to assist steer the strategies of stimulating and commercialising quantum technologies.
Formerly Chairman of the Legal Committee of Quoted Companies Alliance which lobbies for better regulation for the 2,000 or so quoted UK companies outside the FTSE 350. Many meetings held with the DTI (now called BERR), FSA, Takeover Panel, London Stock Exchange (AIM and the Main Market), HM Treasury, EU Commission in Brussels Euronext, etc.
Previously member of the Standing Committee on Company Law of the Law Society of England for ten years, Chairman of the Company Law Committee of the Birmingham Law Society, Chairman of the Law Society’s Commerce and Industry Group West Midlands.
Publications
Co-author, Financial Markets and Exchanges Law, published by the Oxford University Press and specifically wrote on London Stock Exchange: AIM and the Main Market.
Co-author, A Practitioner’s Guide to the Alternative Investment Market Rules, published by City and Financial.
Member of the Waterstone working party, which produced the report on Improving Share Liquidity for Smaller Quoted Companies, published by the Department of Trade and Industry.
Co-author, A Practitioner’s Guide to the Listing Rules, published by ISI publications.
Co-authored Butterworths (Lexis-Nexis) internet/hypertext version of Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 linking it to related Statutory Instruments, FSA Handbook, Listing Rules and Treasury consultation papers.
Co-authored Butterworths Financial Regulation Services where work included writing the commentary on the UK Listing Rules.
Co-author, Doing Business in the UK, published by John Wiley & Sons.
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