Financial Institutions

Navigating the complex and evolving regulatory landscape while continuing to provide a first-rate service to clients is an ongoing challenge for financial institutions.

Our team has decades of experience advising:

• Private Banks 
• Wealth Managers
• Asset Managers
• Investment Funds
• Corporate Finance Firms
• Placement Agents
• Payments and E-Money Firms 

We provide an excellent and comprehensive service tailored to our clients' needs and expectations.

Whether you are a wealth manager navigating new regulations, an asset manager setting up a new fund, or a private bank financing a complex real estate deal, you can trust that we understand your client base and the specific challenges your business faces. We regularly act on acquisitions/disposals involving financial institutions, drawing on the expertise of our multi-service teams, provide pragmatic advice on all aspects of such transactions.

We enjoy getting to know our clients, their businesses and the individuals who keep them running. Many of our lawyers have spent time on secondment across different financial institutions giving us a valuable insight into what our clients want from their lawyers.

We are associate members of several industry bodies including:

• The Personal Investment Management & Financial Advice Association (PIMFA)

Bespoke training and support for your team

We provide bespoke training to our clients at board level, to legal and compliance teams and to the front office, sharing our knowledge and providing practical guidance. All training is designed specifically for our clients and can in be in person or online.

• The Investment Association (IA)

• UK Finance

Our teams regularly support those bodies by speaking at events, providing insight into regulatory developments, case law and wider views on key developments within the private banking and wealth management sector.