Alison Donaldson

Prior to establishing DLC Alison’s most recent experience was as General Counsel to Cologico Capital, an active fund manager with assets under management of $100 million, investing primarily in European equities. This role covered all of the primary areas of legal advice and general documentation in addition to compliance assistance.

Prior to her role as General Counsel, Alison worked at Clifford Chance for four years, qualifying into the structured finance/securitisation department, before spending over eight years as a derivatives lawyer at several major investment houses in both London and Asia, including:

• Credit Suisse Financial Products: working in the Legal Department as derivatives counsel, advising on a wide range of derivative products and transactions throughout Europe.
• Warburg Dillon Read (later UBS Warburg), Hong Kong: working as derivatives counsel located on the equity derivatives desk and advising on a wide range of equity derivatives products.
• Merrill Lynch, Hong Kong: working as derivatives counsel and advising on derivatives products and structured transactions throughout Asia.
• Merrill Lynch, Singapore: working as derivatives counsel and Head of Legal for Singapore, subsequently becoming Director and Head of Legal for South East Asia and managing a team of lawyers/compliance personnel based in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Alison was also regional futures counsel, supporting the futures business in the Asia Pacific Region and assisting with the set-up of new futures business in Korea.

• Law Society of England & Wales
• Law Society of Hong Kong
• Law Society of Ireland