Tom Hine
Founder and Director
Solicitor, England & Wales
- 25 years in financial services regulation
- Former General Counsel at London Metal Exchange
- Led $1.388bn LME sale to HKEx
Tom founded Cambitas in 2023 to provide the quality of regulatory judgement that boards and senior management require at critical decision points, delivered with the responsiveness and directness that institutional advisory structures often lack.
Tom has twenty five years of experience in financial services regulation, governance and commercial advisory. He previously served as General Counsel, Head of Enforcement and Company Secretary at the London Metal Exchange from 2006 to 2023, where he led the legal function through a period of significant regulatory change, was responsible for governance and regulatory engagement at board level, and advised on strategic and commercial matters across the exchange and its clearing house. Since leaving the LME, Tom has advised exchanges, clearing houses, banks, trading firms, crypto firms, benchmark administrators, data vendors, price reporting agencies and governmental agencies across a wide range of financial services regulation, including FSMA, the FCA Handbook, and UK retained law versions of MiFID II, the Benchmarks Regulation, SFTR, EMIR, the Market Abuse Regulation, the UK and EU Emissions Trading Systems and crypto-asset regulation. Tom also has extensive corporate and transactional experience. As General Counsel of the LME, he ran multi-billion dollar transactions as both buyer and seller, including the sale of the LME to HKEx for $1.388 billion, a bid by HKEx/LME for the London Stock Exchange, a bid for the Baltic Exchange and the acquisition of a benchmark provider. Since founding Cambitas, Tom has advised on numerous M&A transactions and fundraisings across regulated and unregulated markets. Tom has particular experience advising technology-driven businesses on the regulatory and data challenges that arise when innovation meets regulatory expectations designed for traditional financial services. This includes regulatory perimeter analysis for novel business models, FCA authorisation strategy, data protection compliance, AI governance, and the structuring of appointed representative and outsourcing arrangements. Tom trained at Simmons & Simmons and also worked at Debevoise & Plimpton in London before joining the LME. He read history at the University of Cambridge and attended Nottingham Law School.
Tom Hine
Director
Solicitor, England & Wales
Cambitas Limited
Tom founded Cambitas in 2023 to provide the quality of regulatory judgement that boards and senior management require at critical decision points, delivered with the responsiveness and directness that institutional advisory structures often lack.
Tom has over twenty years of experience in financial services regulation, governance and commercial advisory. He previously served as General Counsel and Company Secretary at the London Metal Exchange from 2006 to 2023, where he led the legal function through a period of significant regulatory change, was responsible for governance and regulatory engagement at board level, and advised on strategic and commercial matters across the exchange and its clearing house. Tom has advised exchanges, clearing houses, banks, trading firms, crypto firms, benchmark administrators, data vendors, price reporting agencies and governmental agencies across a wide range of financial services regulation, including FSMA, the FCA Handbook, and UK retained law versions of MiFID II, the Benchmarks Regulation, SFTR, EMIR, the Market Abuse Regulation, the UK and EU Emissions Trading Systems and crypto-asset regulation. Tom also has extensive corporate and transactional experience. As General Counsel of the LME, he ran multi-billion dollar transactions as both buyer and seller, including the sale of the LME to HKEx for $1.388 billion, a bid by HKEx/LME for the London Stock Exchange, a bid for the Baltic Exchange and the acquisition of a benchmark provider. Since founding Cambitas, Tom has advised on numerous M&A transactions and fundraisings across regulated and unregulated markets. Tom has particular experience advising technology-driven businesses on the regulatory and data challenges that arise when innovation meets regulatory expectations designed for traditional financial services. This includes regulatory perimeter analysis for novel business models, FCA authorisation strategy, data protection compliance, AI governance, and the structuring of appointed representative and outsourcing arrangements. Tom trained at Simmons & Simmons and also worked at Debevoise & Plimpton in London before joining the LME. He read history at the University of Cambridge and attended Nottingham Law School. Tom also practises through Temple Bright LLP.