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Managing Director, General Counsel, Asia

Instinet is an electronic trading pioneer, having established the world?s first major electronic trading venue in 1969, one of the first recognized U.S. ECNs in 1997 and the first pan-European MTF in 2007. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, Instinet operates two distinct business lines: a global network of agency-only brokers that seek to help institutions lower overall trading costs and improve investment performance through the use of innovative electronic trading products, including smart-routing, algorithms, DMA, dark pools and EMS platforms, and also provide sales trading, commission management services and independent research| and the Chi-X? Global businesses, which aim to improve the efficiency of capital markets globally by providing high-performance, low-cost alternative execution venues and the technology required to power them. Instinet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Liam Madden has over 25 years of experience in legal practice. He is a lawyer with a unique blend of private practice, litigation and in-house experience. In private practice he was able to tackle complicated and contentious matters with an eye to achieving commercially advantageous and relevant outcomes for his clients. Since moving in-house, he has applied that same commercial focus to ensuring that the businesses he has worked with are able to operate successfully in highly regulated environments across the different jurisdictions in Asia. Technologically literate, he is able to understand the ever increasing role of technology in the financial services sphere and manage the legal and compliance challenges that this creates. Liam is admitted to practice in New South Wales, Australia and Hong Kong.