Tom Gorman

COO

Hong Kong SAR

About

I am COO at Qube in Hong Kong. Previously I was Head of Hedge Fund Consulting in Prime Brokerage at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong with particular focus on legal, regulatory and compliance matters. Previously I was the Head of FICC Legal Asia (ex Japan) at Goldman Sachs based in Hong Kong and before that the head of the APAC regulatory advisory team at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong.

Experience

  • COO at Qube Research & Technologies
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Goldman Sachs (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Executive Director, Head of Hedge Fund Consulting
      Feb 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Executive Director, Hedge Fund Consulting
      Sep 2021 - Feb 2022 · 6 mos

    • Head of FICC Legal, Executive Director and Senior Counsel
      Dec 2019 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Head of FICC Legal Asia (ex Japan), Executive Director & Senior Counsel. Runs a team of five EDs and two analysts covering all FICC asset classes with a particular focus on asset backed financing, derivatives and regulatory.

  • BNP Paribas (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Head of Legal APAC Regulatory Advisory and Specialised Global Coordinator - Regulatory and Advisory
      Jan 2017 - Jul 2017 · 7 mos

      Head of the Legal APAC Regulatory Advisory team covering regulation for the BNP Paribas group across Asia-Pacific and Specialised Global Coordinator - Regulatory and Advisory for CIB Legal.

    • Regulatory and Fixed Income Derivatives Lawyer
      Nov 2013 - Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Senior lawyer in the legal team at BNP Paribas, Hong Kong Branch. I support the Global Markets derivatives business and am a key member of the APAC regulatory advisory team, advising the BNP Paribas Group on regulatory reform implementation in the region. My areas of regulatory expertise include margin for uncleared derivatives, clearing and trade reporting across the Asia Pacific region. My transactional experience includes all major derivatives underlying including credit, commodities, equity and fixed income. I also have extensive experience in securitisation derivatives and Islamic derivatives, in addition to debt capital markets experience.

    • Commodity Derivatives Lawyer
      Oct 2011 - Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Senior member of the Commodity Derivatives legal team at BNP Paribas in London. My work included advising all of the major business lines of the OTC Commodity Derivatives business with a particular focus on finance-linked hedging and emerging markets deals (including in Russia, Africa and the Middle East). Other work included advising on metals (precious and base), carbon emissions and energy trades (oil, gas and electricity), both derivatives and physical commodity transactions. In all cases this included day-to-day assistance to sales, trading and credit, active participation in numerous internal approval committees and documentation and structuring input.

  • Derivatives Lawyer at Norton Rose Group
    Sep 2004 - Sep 2011 · 7 yrs 1 mo

    Whilst at Norton Rose, I was an associate in the derivatives and capital markets team. My work at Norton Rose included advising on a wide range of Fixed Income and Equities products, including balance guaranteed swaps for securitisation transactions, derivatives for end-users including pension funds and hedge funds, commodity derivatives and Shariah compliant derivatives products. I also did extensive work in the Debt Capital Markets team including stand-alone debt issuances, MTN programmes (both Shariah compliant and conventional) and catastrophe bonds.