Daniel van Dongen is a Senior Manager in the Markets division of the Dubai Financial Services Authority. Over the past two decades, Daniel has worked in various capital markets roles, in private practice as a lawyer and in government for financial services regulators.
Daniel joined the DFSA in 2013 from the Dutch financial services regulator (AFM) where he worked as in-house legal counsel and as securities offering supervisor. Before that, Daniel was a corporate and securities lawyer in the New York and London offices of Clifford Chance, in their US Securities Group and with the Dutch law firm Houthoff Buruma, in their securities, corporate and M&A practice.
Daniel is recognised as an expert in securities regulation, in particular equity, corporate governance, listed funds, crypto related financial instruments and SME financing through the capital markets. He was also involved in the drawing up of the new DFSA regime for Digital Assets, the first part of which, for the issuance and trading of Investment Tokens, came into force just now, on 25 October 2021.