Financial services

Financial services litigation

Our lawyers have significant experience acting for a range of clients in High Court litigation, arbitral proceedings and alternative dispute resolution. Understanding the regulatory environment in which the financial services industry operates is key. We’re able to consider the possible regulatory implications of our clients’ disputes to inform strategy.

Fintech

For financial services institutions, we can help you to collaborate effectively with fintechs in order to transform your business. We can help deliver business-critical finance and technology solutions, understanding how new disruptive technologies integrate with existing systems and have the potential to change how your business operates and how services are delivered.

For fintechs, we can help you to build, grow and protect your business and navigate your relationships with larger institutions at all stages of your growth cycle and regarding all aspects of your business operations.

Investment funds

Our close-knit team includes corporate, tax, and regulatory specialist lawyers who regularly work together on funds and emerging finance. Combining our expertise with your ideas, we can innovate together. Regardless of the investment objectives and the identity of the investors, we can help. Our clients range from listed investment funds to small groups of like-minded individuals who wish to pool their investments.

Restructuring & insolvency

We advise businesses on financially distressed situations and assist insolvency practitioners on all aspects of insolvency processes. If a business is in financial distress, we use our experience to feed into a rescue plan and work with the company's leaders to navigate back to a solvent position.

As for counterparties, their financial distress is a major threat to our client's interests. We protect their position and maximise their recovery in case the worst happens and a counterparty ends up in an insolvency process. We've produced a useful Guide to protecting your business. We also advise insolvency practitioners and banks in connection with formal insolvency processes, such as administration, provisional liquidation, receivership and liquidation.

Surety

Our core surety legal team have over 80 years’ collective experience representing sureties, domestically and abroad. They're experienced in both putting the deal together and dealing with distress scenarios, as well as threatened and actual claims.