Lodewijk van Setten Editor & Author

Lodewijk van Setten is International Counsel and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management in London. He has wide-ranging experience in advising financial institutions and institutional investors on all legal and regulatory aspects of transactions in the financial markets. He regularly publishes on these matters and teaches on the topic of financial markets at King's College, University of London, where he is a visiting professor. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he held positions in private practice in The Netherlands and the UK, and he was European Counsel of State Street Global Advisors. Professor Van Setten holds an LLB and a PhD from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and an LLM from Duke University, NC, USA, where he was a Special Staff Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative International Law. He was admitted as advocaat in The Netherlands in 1993, as attorney-at-law in the State of New York in 1994, and as solicitor in England and Wales in 2002. Before joining Covington & Burling, Lodewijk served as director and European Counsel for State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the U.S. based institutional investment manager, in London. At SSgA, he was responsible for the legal support of all aspects of SSgA's institutional investment business in Europe. Prior to joining SSgA, he worked as a banking and securities lawyer for a leading international law firm in Amsterdam. Lodewijk holds an LL.B and a Ph.D (Thesis: Private rights of action against broker-dealers and investor protection) from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and an LL.M from Duke University (U.S.), where he was a Special Staff Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative International Law. He regularly publishes on various topics relating to transactions in the financial markets and teaches these topics in the graduate programme at King's College (London), where he is a Visiting Professor. He was admitted as advocaat in the Netherlands in 1993, as attorney at law in the state of New York in 1994, and as solicitor in England and Wales in 2002.