Our multi-skilled team of business lawyers and advisers provides a full range of regulatory advice to help you manage your regulatory risk in business projects and transactions - wherever in the world you are doing business.
Over the last 20 years, we have developed a reputation for delivering advice across the full spectrum of regulatory activities, providing pragmatic solutions and compliance support to regulated and non-regulated businesses and those engaging with them.
Triggered initially by commercial insurance advice for business clients, our expertise and experience now covers all aspects of insurance and financial services regulation, both onshore and offshore.
We also acquired a reputation as 'the law firm for law firms' based on our commercial and regulatory expertise and our ability to offer solutions to law firms having to manage the fast changing regulatory regime post LASPO - ensuring they and their stakeholders (typically funders and insurers) met their compliance obligations.
As the regulation of the business of sport increases, we also find ourselves advising sport businesses and regulators on all aspects of regulation and compliance.
Commercial businesses of all kinds now demand our expertise in those areas of regulation relevant to the trading environments in which they operate e.g. data protection law, competition law, National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) issues, and anti-money laundering.
A summary of our regulatory services can be found below. Our regulatory practice comprises seven senior lawyers (including a highly-experienced financial services Legal Director Consultant) and a trainee solicitor, whose specialist expertise is shown below.
- Philip Bowers - Sport regulation.
- Natasha Lackner - Legal services regulation.
- David Malone - Legal services regulation.
- Mark O’Connor - Legal services regulation.
- Paul O'Connor - Financial services regulation.
- Luke Poulston - Financial services regulation.
- Laurence Pritchard - Competition regulation.
- Legal Director Consultant - Financial services regulation.
Our regulatory work covers UK, offshore and EU jurisdictions for advice to:
- Insurers and reinsurers, insurance brokers, MGAs, captives, secondary intermediaries, insurance-related service providers, and investors in the insurance sector.
- Banks and other lenders, wealth managers, investment managers, investment funds, crypto asset providers, payment services providers, claims management companies, financial services-related service providers, and investors in the financial services sector.
- Solicitors, barristers, legal executives, patent and trade mark attorneys, licensed conveyancers, costs lawyers, notaries, accountants, and investors in the legal services sector.
- Sports clubs, sports associations, sport-related businesses, and investors in the sport sector.
Our experience includes advice on:
- FCA and PRA authorisation, perimeter guidance and financial promotion issues, including in relation to crypto assets.
- Regulatory change of control applications.
- Interpretation of PRA and FCA rules, including COBS, SYSC, MiFID II, CASS, EMIR, Payment Services Regulation and E-Money Regulations.
- Financial crime legislation, including AML, sanctions, anti-fraud and anti-bribery and corruption legislation.
- Regulatory matters relating to the legal services sector.
- Regulatory matters relating to the sport sector.