Our financial institutions group (FIG) draws together - from all our disciplines - experts who have the experience and industry knowledge to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We are able to provide our clients with integrated and established multi-jurisdictional teams who have the precise blend of transactional, regulatory and advisory expertise for the job in hand.

As a result, we have worked on many of the largest and most groundbreaking projects in the financial institutions sector, such as advising:

  • UniCredito on its acquisition of HVB Group (Cross-border deal of the year - Acquisitions Monthly Awards 2006 and M&A deal of the year - International Financial Law Review European Awards 2006);
  • on the listing of a private equity fund, KKR Private Equity Investors (Guernsey), by KKR, which raised US$5 billion in funds and was the first IPO of its kind (Equity deal of the year - International Financial Law Review European Awards 2007); and
  • on the Hong Kong IPO and global offering of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) (Deal of the Year; Best equity deal; Best IPO; Best Privatisation - Finance Asia Awards 2007).

With some 280 lawyers, including 180 partners, our FIG practice is recognised as a market leader in many counties - we are ranked first in Mergermarket’s European and fourth in Bloomberg’s global 2006 financial services M&A league tables by value.

Within FIG, we focus on:

In addition, we have dedicated teams dealing with financial services non-contentious regulatory and contentious regulatory matters and capital markets transactions.

For more information please contact Jeremy Barton, business development manager.

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