First name
Alexander
Byron
Alex works with clients across financial services, helping them navigate governmental and regulatory policy priorities in the UK, building engagement strategies and translating the UK political environment's effects on clients' business priorities.
Alex is a Senior Associate at Global Counsel. Before joining GC, Alex worked at the UK's Treasury focusing on payments, cryptoassets, banking, and post-Brexit regulatory reform. Before entering government, he worked at JPMorgan, starting in market derivatives, and later working in investor services and corporate banking as a product strategist.
At Global Counsel, Alex works with clients across financial services, helping them navigate governmental and regulatory policy priorities in the UK, building engagement strategies and translating the UK political environment's effects on clients' business priorities.
Recent examples of his work include:
- Advising investors on the political and policy landscape affecting private markets and venture capital practices.
- Analysing multilateral policymaking affecting non-bank financial institutions.
- Providing insights on UK government policies and priorities associated with cryptoassets and decentralised finance.