General Counsel, APAC, Jain Global
Catherine Stemp is the General Counsel, APAC for Jain Global. She has responsibility for Legal and Compliance for Asia Pacific and has lived and worked in Hong Kong since 2009.
Prior to joining in Jain earlier this year, Catherine was a Managing Director and Head of Equities Legal for the Asia Pacific region at Goldman Sachs. This included overseeing legal coverage for Goldman Sachs’ APAC Equity Derivatives Structuring and Trading, Equities Sales & Trading (including Electronic Trading), Stock Loan, Market Access, Futures Execution & Clearing, Prime Brokerage and Digital Assets businesses. This portfolio included a strong focus on North Asian markets including overseeing activities in a suite of licenses/IDs including PRC QFII, Overseas Intermediary & Stock Connect, Taiwan FINI, Korea ID and India ODI/FPI market access channels. She was also the APAC Legal lead for the AI working group.
As part of her Digital Assets coverage, Catherine advised on the build-out of Goldman Sachs’ digital assets trading business in APAC as well as the expansion of the Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Platform (GSDAP) to APAC. A key highlight was leading the Goldman Sachs legal team working with the HKMA on the first ever tokenized green bond issued by a central bank which was issued on the GSDAP.
Between 2009 and 2019, Catherine was part of the Goldman Sachs Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Legal team, covering Structured and Flow Credit, MACRO and the Repo and Funding businesses. She had a strong focus on South East Asian markets and was part of the core team that set up and ran Goldman Sachs (Asia) Bank in Hong Kong.
A derivatives and structured products lawyer by training, Catherine qualified into the DSP practice at Linklaters in London in 2003 before moving to Deutsche Bank in 2006 as part of the Structured Credit Legal team.
Catherine holds an LLB/ELS in Law and European Law from Durham University and is admitted to practice law in England & Wales.