Amber Group is a global leader in digital assets and proudly announces the appointment Ehsan Haque to its General Counsel Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region. Amber Group’s latest appointment comes amid the company’s global expansion plans and its ambitious licensing and regulatory roadmap. After two successful Series B rounds and a Series B+ round, the company is now worth US$3Billion. Since then, it has been growing with new offices around the world and securing regulatory licenses in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
As Amber Group’s General Counsel, Ehsan will work closely with Chief Operating Officer (COO) Wayne Huo to lead Amber Group’s legal and regulatory risk management in the EMEA region, and ultimately deepen the company’s relationship with regulatory authorities in these markets.
Ehsan has been an accomplished in-house counsel for many established financial banks, brokers-dealers and private equity companies, as well as at fintech start ups. Ehsan studied at the renowned international law firm Slaughter and May before joining Deutsche Bank in-house as an advisor, responsible for Equities Sales Trading and Global Markets Derivatives. He later joined Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Global Banking and was part of the senior management team at Nomura’s EMEA Legal Department where he led the Equities legal product coverage for the region.
Ehsan most recently served as General Counsel to two Fintech Start-Up Businesses, which included Lendingblock (a crypto lending and borrowing platform). Before joining Amber Group, he was Global General Counsel for a private equity company with US$13 billion in AUM. Ehsan acts as advisor to the Fintech Accelerator of Excellence and is featured on The Lawyer Hot 100 2022.
“I am excited to be joining Amber Group at this stage of its incredible growth journey so far. As the regulatory environment for digital assets changes rapidly, the next few years will prove to be crucial for the sector as we strive towards regulatory clarity in the EMEA region. I look forward to supporting the company’s growth and to guiding the legal and regulatory risk management as part of Amber Group’s strategy in the EMEA region,” says Ehsan Haque.
“The EMEA region has long been a strategic market for Amber Group as the region has led a variety of neobank and neobroker-related innovations for the global financial ecosystem. Ehsan is a wonderful addition to the Amber Group team. With his strong track record in both traditional finance and emerging fintech start-ups, we are excited to work with Ehsan and build a strong regulatory framework that supports the viability and utility of new industry innovations in the EMEA region and accelerate the company into the next phase of growth,”Wayne Huo (Amber Group Global COO), said the following: