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Guy Morton is a solicitor and was, until his retirement, a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, with a practice specialising in banking and financial law and the regulation of financial markets. He was Joint Senior Partner of the firm from 2006 to 2010. He has served on European Commission consultative groups relating to financial law reform and has represented the United Kingdom in relation to international law reform initiatives at the Hague Conference on Private International Law and UNIDROIT. Mr Morton was appointed as Acting Chairman from January 2018 until the appointment of Sir Andrew Cash in September 2018. He first joined the board in June 2011. During the pandemic the decision was taken to extend his term of office until the autumn of 2022 given the value in a period of uncertainty of his long experience with SJEHG.