Katie Chin

KATIE CHIN advises a wide range of global financial institutions ranging from banks and fund managers to multi-national corporations, on complex EU and UK financial services regulatory issues. This includes providing regulatory analysis, implementation solutions and advice on public policy and advocacy matters. In addition, Katie advises on cross-border transactions and strategic projects, including product launches and commercial partnerships.

Katie has particular experience in advising clients on sustainable finance and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) regulation from a strategy and implementation perspective. In particular, Katie counsels on EU and UK regulatory frameworks, including the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Requirements, Taxonomy Regulation, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and UK TCFD reporting regime.

Katie has also completed secondments with Airbus and with a large consumer electronics manufacturer.

Katie is recommended by Legal 500 UK 2025 for Fintech: regulatory.

Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Katie trained in Sidley’s office in London. Katie gained experience with the firm’s investment funds and financial services regulatory practices, as well as the Hong Kong office’s international commercial arbitration practice.

Recent examples of Katie’s work include representing:

• Advising on the new regulatory framework for sustainable finance/ESG and strategic responses to policy proposals.
• Preparing sustainability disclosures for asset managers under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and working with clients to implement ESG policy changes, ESG-related investment policies and sustainability data monitoring.
• Advising on the UK’s Green Finance Strategy, including its TCFD-aligned disclosure regime for asset managers, asset owners, and corporate issuers.
• Counselling corporate issuers on the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
  Assisting a global investment fund trade association and its members on different aspects of UK/EU financial services policy and regulation, including regulatory policy and preparing consultation responses.
• Advising on other general UK/EU financial services legislation including MiFID II, AIFMD, Market Abuse Regulation, Short Selling Regulation and SFTR.
• Representing large corporates in relation to regulatory rules arising out of M&A and restructuring transactions.

Katie maintains an active pro bono practice and regularly represents pro bono clients in access to justice programs in areas ranging from immigration and asylum law, family law, public law and welfare benefit appeals. Katie undertook a three-month pro bono secondment to Just for Kids Law in 2020, during which she focused on representing young migrants on various immigration and refugee asylum issues.