Sectors

Banks

The banks need continuous legal support in the critical aspects of their business.

The banks need continuous legal support in the critical aspects of their business for them to successfully adapt to dynamic changes in their environment.  Expertise provided is broad and covers the full range of a bank’s business, advising them on transactions, regulatory issues and major legislative changes. The long and deep knowledge of the sector and its issues is required to help banks’ address challenging business issues, in particular demanding and ever more complex regulatory regime they face. In relation to the services that banks provide to their customers, a part of finance and regulatory work is devoted to advising banks on the range of products and services they offer.

Insurance

The practice helps insurance companies to navigate the significant transactional, structural and regulatory developments taking place.

The practice helps insurance companies to navigate the significant transactional, structural and regulatory developments taking place. Long-standing relationship and experience of advising insurance companies, understanding of and insight into the approaches to regulation, enables achieve commercially pragmatic outcomes for the clients. Expertise covers M&A, regulatory matters, advise on regulatory capital and on distribution channels.

Asset management

Advice is provided to a wide range of participants that operate in this industry.

Advice is provided to a wide range of participants that operate in this industry, asset managers, funds, financial institutions, sovereign wealth investors and private equity funds. The industry is very diverse and as it faces numerous challenges from technological to regulatory it needs advice from those that have deep understanding of their business and its drivers. The areas of advise and assistance include the formation and structuring of different types of investment vehicles, advice on investment management documentation as well as on securities law and regulatory issues typically associated with transactions market participants engage in.