Adrianus Schoorl (joined April 2024) is a Legal 500 and Chambers recognized legal practitioner (firstly included in 2017) focusing on financial services and payments (including licensing strategies, product terms and specifications, marketing strategies, capital markets compliance, the creation of payments and AML regulatory frameworks as well as managing regulatory interaction), data regulation (GDPR and Middle East and North Africa – MENA -equivalents) as well as technology (outsourcing, e-commerce, social media, crypto).
Adrianus has a proven track record with “white-shoe” and “magic-circle” law firms, building and leading well-recognised financial services practices, lastly as partner at a large US law firm. He works very closely with our tier-1 technology and regulatory / investigations teams across the network.
As a significant value-add to his career, Adrianus spent 4 years as a financial services regulator in Europe, the Middle East and North America, and Adrianus spent the last two years as regulatory counsel of a large global fintech. His clients include government entities (support on legislative and regulatory reforms), payment services providers, digital platform economy operators, fintechs and financial institutions more broadly as well as sovereign, public and private equity funds investing (via debt and equity) in the digital economy.
Adrianus also has a respected profile in fund formation and regulation in the financial services domain and in regulatory aspects of capital markets transactions. He is a strong networker in the public and private sector and has built a loyal client following based on the motto “follow your clients to where they want to go” and he has the ability to build and inspire the necessary teams to support work-flow.
Adrianus lives and works in the Middle East since 2005 including 2 years in Saudi Arabia, 2 years in Qatar, 2 years in Abu Dhabi and 10+ years in Dubai.
