Banking and Finance Disputes
Our banking and finance disputes group advises UK, US, European, Middle Eastern and Asian banks, funds, wealth managers and other financial institutions, as well as high net worth individuals. Our experience covers the full range of financial products and services, from routine lending arrangements to the most complex financing vehicles and investments. We handle the full range of problems financial institutions encounter in their business, from day-to-day trading and sales up to life-threatening challenges.
We field lean, partner-led teams to work closely with your in-house commercial, compliance and legal teams. We provide early strategic advice to help you achieve a settlement. If that isn’t possible, we devise a clear plan for resolving the dispute, managing all necessary litigation, arbitration, regulatory and disciplinary matters. We understand cost sensitivities and offer creative and novel solutions to ensure costs are identified clearly and remain certain.
The team’s expertise covers:
- Disputes relating to banking, asset management, brokerage, capital markets, private equity, derivatives and structured finance.
- Disputes relating to a borrower’s failure to meet their obligations, including enforcement of security and restructuring negotiations.
- Private banking, private capital and retail investment and product disputes, particularly mis-selling complaints and claims against banks, wealth managers, product providers and IFAs.
- Bondholder disputes.
- Trade finance disputes.
- FCA/PRA and market regulator investigations and enforcement action.
- Complex financial frauds.
Our key practitioners have between them many years of in-house experience in financial institutions, which adds true value and insight to our service. We understand the challenges and pressures clients face ‘at the coal face’, and know how to deliver pragmatic and commercial advice to business deadlines and in a cost-effective manner.
For information regarding the non-contentious financial services regulatory and compliance advice we provide, please visit our Financial Services Regulatory page.