Whether you are a commercial bank, international development bank, investment bank, multilateral bank, a fund or other financial institution, our international Finance & Financial Regulation Group seeks to meet your needs wherever you are located.

Through our teams of specialist lawyers from across our offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we are well-positioned to advise you on the structuring, documentation and negotiation of a wide range of finance and financial regulation-related matters, including:

• Acquisition and leveraged finance
• Asset-based lending / finance leasing
• Aviation finance
• Digital financial marketplaces
• Digital services provision
• Financial disputes
• Financial products and payments
• Financial regulation
• Infrastructure
• Initial Public Offerings
• Islamic finance
• Payments & Payment Regulation
• Project Finance
• Outsourcing of financial critical functions
• Real estate finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Sports finance

We also have noteworthy strength in dealing with financial disputes (in particular in relation to derivatives and structured products), restructuring, insolvency, enforcement and asset recovery. We also advise on the impact of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing rules, as well as on implementing internal procedures to comply with such regulation.

To find out more, please contact either Joss Hargrave in London, Dr. Michael Juenemann in Frankfurt or Giuseppe D’Agostino in Milan.

1702-2021

Germany: What are crypto custodians allowed to do under the draft eWpG?

The government draft of the Electronic Securities Introduction Act (eWpG) will also change the facts of the crypto custodian.
1702-2021

Germany: Extension of Money Laundering Crime burdens Obliged Entities

The German parliament (Bundestag) has passed a new version of the money laundering offence, which has far-reaching implications for the fulfillment of obligations under the Money Laundering Act.
1702-2021

Employer salary advance schemes to be closely monitored by the FCA

Employer salary advance schemes (ESAS) are becoming increasingly popular in the payments sector. Much of the public focus of the review carried out by Christopher Woolard published on 2 February 2021 (the Woolard ...

1602-2021

Bird & Bird’s Czech transactional team advises the start up wflow.com Czech Republic s.r.o. for investment by Scio.

Bird & Bird assisted wflow.com with preparing it for investment from Scio (www.scio.cz, s.r.o.) through minority share transfer. wflow.com is a Czech startup company focused on bookkeeping processes automation and ...
1102-2021

Bird & Bird advises aam2cred Debt Investments on investment by Union Investment

Bird & Bird LLP has advised the shareholders of aam2cred Debt Investments GmbH, formerly aamundo Fund Management, on the investment process by Union Investment, which has taken a 10% stake in the private debt manager. ...
1201-2021

Bird & Bird advises Obton and its group companies on financing the acquisition of 51 photovoltaic farms in Poland of a total capacity of 46 MW

Bird & Bird’s Warsaw Financing Transactions team recently had the pleasure of advising Obton A/S (a Danish solar investor being one of Europe’s top ten largest providers of investments in renewable solar energy) on the ...