Our international Financial Services Group handles a full range of traditional banking and financial services work.
In addition to this, we can offer a unique service to clients by combining specialist skills within the financial sector with the firm's well-recognised cutting-edge know-how in areas such as communications, e-commerce, IT, biosciences, sports and media.
Whether we are advising lenders, borrowers or the suppliers or users of financial services, our experienced team provides an innovative and commercially focused approach to each individual matter.
The areas we cover include:
- General lending work, secured/unsecured, single bank/syndicated, acting for lenders and borrowers
- Project finance generally but with a particular emphasis on the telecom and technology fields
- Asset-based financing including lease financing and structured finance products
- Banking and financial services regulatory compliance work, including obtaining financial services authorisations
- Rescue and restructuring initiatives
- Insolvency work (such as administrations, receiverships and liquidations and their equivalents in non-UK jurisdictions)
- Consumer credit lending
- Property finance
- Receivables financing
- Production of standard form lending and mortgage documentation for bank/lender clients
Through working with some of the most technologically advanced companies, we have gained particular experience of advising on e-banking, on-line payment systems and compliance with financial services legislation.
Our services in this area include:
- E-cash and other payment systems
- E-banking and e-financial services
- Electronic forex products
Contact: Matthew Wong