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Financial services

Providing expert legal advice in a high stakes, regulated and fiercely competitive environment.

Known for our work with asset managers, insurance companies and some of the largest global banking institutions, we can help you manage risk and protect and grow your business, domestically or internationally.

Our team includes specialists in employment, dispute resolution, regulatory, intellectual property, banking and corporate law.

We offer top-tier employment and immigration law services, from HR guidance to handling complex disputes. Our expertise includes executive remuneration, incentive schemes, and partnership structures.

We also specialise in high-stakes legal disputes and injunctive relief, while our corporate team serves financial institutions and fintechs, focusing on venture capital, blockchain, and crypto.

Other focus areas include commercial lending, data protection, workplace privacy, intellectual property and real estate advice. Regulation, including financial services regulation, is increasingly pervasive and our comprehensive offering enables us to facilitate your delivery of compliant transactions and solutions.  We can also help you meet your business objectives in a tax efficient manner.

Employment advisory

We have particular expertise in the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR), employment contract terms, remuneration, fitness and propriety, whistleblowing, settlement agreements, and regulatory references.

Our Worksphere team can provide you with bespoke, in-house training on business protection and regulatory issues to pre-empt problems.

We can also provide employment support for senior executives.

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Employment litigation & business protection

Our specialist employment litigators have a wealth of experience in contentious matters in the financial services sector, including team moves, misuse of confidential information, employee competition, and bonus claims.

We’re thoroughly familiar with the complex regulatory landscape in which our financial services clients operate. Working alongside our financial services regulatory team, we act quickly to provide practical advice on the regulatory ramifications of workplace issues including discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing, and negligence.

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Financial services regulatory

Our financial services regulatory team can help you with a wide range of both contentious and advisory matters including investigations and enforcement, transaction regulatory support, employment, and issues relating to crypto, NFTs and AI.

Financial services regulation is continually evolving and our team stays at the forefront of developments, ensuring that you’re fully up to date and ahead of the game.

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Corporate advisory

With clients ranging from multinational corporate groups and financial sector growth companies to partnerships, directors and boards, we provide a full corporate advisory service, covering structuring (including tax), governance issues, partnership and LLP work, and advice on directors’ duties.

We can also advise you on regulation in respect of these issues. Our expertise enables us to offer you clear, practical guidance.

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Banking

Known for advising both lenders and borrowers on a wide array of corporate banking matters, including new debt financing, general corporate lending and refinancing and restructuring, we can provide you support with secured or unsecured funding, bilateral or syndicated loans, development and project finance, and lending to assist cashflow (including invoice discounting and factoring or intragroup lending).

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Immigration

Whether you need to arrange a temporary or permanent relocation, we provide an efficient, end-to-end service. With worldwide coverage from our offices across the UK, Dublin, Hong Kong and via our global alliance, Ius Laboris, our service covers key personnel and their families, entire teams, artistic and sporting talent, and high-net-worth individuals.

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Data & workplace data

We can help you maximise opportunities and mitigate challenges in relation to data privacy and cyber.

Our holistic approach is focussed on practical solutions to help you to manage your risk and remain compliant globally.

Information flow is international - and so is our advice. No matter where you're processing data, our team can provide bespoke solutions across the full spectrum of data privacy, from the workplace to the marketplace.

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