Monetary Providers Authorized Consultants

Working carefully with the agency’s different core sector teams, we ship monetary companies authorized recommendation and options for each customers and suppliers. These are tailor-made to the precise wants of these sectors, whether or not actual property, transport, wealth administration, training or know-how.

Our banking and finance staff acts for numerous UK and abroad banks, aiding within the structuring and documentation of their numerous finance transactions and steering them by means of even essentially the most advanced of offers. As their trusted advisers, we be certain that our purchasers can deal with the tempo of change and quite a few calls for that the present dynamic monetary companies sector presents.

For fintech start-ups and new market entrants, we advise on fundraising and financing, the contractual and regulatory points of monetary companies, and associated information safety and cyber safety points, enabling them to focus extra carefully on the event of their services and products. Our staff can also be more and more engaged to assist established market contributors meet the challenges to their enterprise fashions from fintech corporations and different disrupters by coping with the influence of technological change on legacy methods, growing their very own fintech, or pairing up with start-ups.

We additionally give monetary regulatory assist to purchasers – significantly in our core areas of actual property, commerce and commodity and undertaking financing – to make sure they’re properly positioned to deal with the chance and compliance setting during which their companies are delivered. This consists of our employment legal professionals advising on the Senior Managers and Certification Regime and potential breaches, in addition to managing compliance opinions and addressing regulatory necessities by means of insurance coverage and different qualifying credit score danger mitigants. The speedy development of regulation means visits, investigations and enforcement motion by regulators are a standard a part of life for monetary companies corporations; our staff is skilled in guiding purchasers by means of these processes and in liaising with regulators.

We now have a wealth of expertise in bringing and defending contractual and non-contractual claims, together with claims arising from syndicated lending, commerce, commodity and undertaking financing, associated derivatives contracts and from digital property together with cryptocurrencies. We now have additionally introduced and defended claims for the mis-selling of monetary companies.

Whereas technological change and innovation are the supply of motivation to many companies and organisations, we recognise that additionally they drive fraudsters and different criminals to ever-more artistic and sophisticated technique of exploiting these growing applied sciences. Our specialists help purchasers who’ve been cyber attacked, fight fraud, and get better property misplaced by means of misappropriation.