We have a world leading Banks sector group and are involved in many of the market’s ground-breaking deals. The group consists of a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers drawn from our Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate, Tax, Litigation and Real Estate practices who have unrivalled breadth and depth of experience working with Banks globally.
Our specialist knowledge of the sector and its issues enables our lawyers to provide results-driven commercial advice to banks on some of their most complex transactions and to help them address some of their most challenging business issues.
Bank regulation
We are working alongside the world’s leading financial institutions to meet the challenges of a dramatically changing regulatory landscape. Our global network of regulatory and capital markets lawyers brings commercially-focused expertise in navigating Africa, EU, UK, US and other national legislation and wider regulatory issues. We also play a significant role in working with regulatory bodies to shape current and proposed frameworks.
M&A in the banking industry
The ongoing market turmoil continues to drive M&A activity across the sector as institutions seek to reshape their operating models or capitalise on new opportunities. We have a pre-eminent reputation for advising a significant number of banks on complex strategic disposals or acquisitions. We have built strong relationships with key regulators and can mobilise unrivaled resources in order to deliver the full range of the firm’s knowledge and experience to help clients complete successful transactions.
Banking products
Changes in market sentiment and the needs of clients has led many banks to refine and update the product set they offer. Our market leading Banking & Finance and Capital Markets practices provide advice in relation to the full spectrum of financial products including syndicated lending and leveraged and acquisition finance, asset finance, derivative products, project finance, financial regulatory, insolvency & restructuring, debt capital markets, equity capital markets, structured debt and structured finance.
