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      Hagen Rooke

      Hagen Rooke

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      Gibson Dunn

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      Hagen Rooke is a partner in the Singapore office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Financial Regulatory Practice Group and has extensive experience advising global financial institutions and corporates on regulatory matters across their full lifecycle, including financial services licensing, conduct of business, regulatory change projects, and contentious matters relating to regulatory investigations and enforcement. His clients include the world’s leading banks, payment services firms, digital asset exchanges, Web3 projects, capital markets intermediaries, fund managers, exchanges, proprietary trading houses, and commodity groups.

      With an extensive track record of engaging with regulators such as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC), and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and with an international client base, Hagen draws on a wealth of institutional and multijurisdictional experience. As such, he is uniquely placed to provide strategic advice to clients on their most critical business and risk-management decisions.

      Hagen is a sought-after adviser, speaker, and writer on regulatory developments, both in traditional financial services and in emerging industry segments such as blockchain and Web3. He regularly presents at industry events and roundtables of organizations such as the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA), the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS), and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). Hagen currently sits on the SFA’s Capital Markets Services Subcommittee and was a member of the SFA’s Digital Financing Subcommittee.

      Chambers Fintech guide ranks Hagen as a Band 1 lawyer for Singapore FinTech Legal. Clients say that “Hagen is one of the top lawyers out there. He truly understands the technology he is advising on, making him an excellent partner from product creation to launch.” Other industry feedback states that he “has a very strong grasp of the legal issues relevant to digital assets, and he understands novel business models that are more relevant in the digital assets space” and that he “provides superb work and he is always on time and responsive.” Legal 500 ranks Hagen as a “Next Generation Partner” for Fintech and financial services regulatory. He is also among the “Asia Super 50 TMT Lawyers 2025” by Asian Legal Business.

      Hagen received a Doctor of Law with distinction from the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Université in 2007 and gained his law qualifications (LPC) from BPP Law School in 2008. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sussex in 2002. Hagen is admitted to practice in England and Wales. He is also able to practice in permitted areas of Singapore Law under Section 36B of the Legal Profession Act. He speaks English, French, and German.

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      • 2:00–3:00pmTue 17 NovWorkshopWorkshop Room 1Open

        The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized MarketsSovereignty & Resilience in a Rewired Financial System

        Guardrails for Digital Assets: Cyber Risk and Operational Resilience - Powered by Fireblocks

        WorkshopWorkshop Room 1Open

        About this session

        As institutional digital asset adoption accelerates, the share of tokenized assets under management which banks, payment firms, and crypto brokers have to protect is growing. This is a paradigm shift for the entire ecosystem - policymakers, supervisors, crypto-native firms whose AUMs are growing, and TradFi firms who face new operational resilience risks. Meanwhile, technologies such as AI are changing both the velocity and sophistication of attacks, and the speed and effectiveness of safekeeping.

        Singapore’s MAS, similar to EU, UK, US and APAC peers, is raising the bar on technology risk management. TRM and TPRM proposed changes would strengthen mandatory controls for cryptographic assets, security monitoring and incident recovery, while expanding requirements beyond outsourcing to broader third-party arrangements, reporting and oversight.

        Join Fireblocks for a hands-on masterclass on supervising cyber risk, implementing resilient Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Hardware Security Module (HSM) key management and onchain threat monitoring. Learn how leading institutions address single points of failure and defend onchain operations.