Financial Institutions

Our extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and financing equips us to offer first-class legal advice to financial institutions. We have long-standing relationships with our clients in this sector which include major companies with regulatory interests.

Our Financial Regulation group has the expertise to advise the full range of financial institutions regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) including investment firms (including asset managers), banks, building and friendly societies, insurers, brokers, exchanges and clearing houses, on:

• a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues
• market abuse and insider dealing
• anti-money laundering and financial crime
• consumer credit
• data protection

Our lawyers have broad commercial experience and understand our clients' objectives, responding quickly, precisely and commercially to their legal and regulatory needs.