Financial services
Empowering financial services success amid intensifying oversight
Financial services businesses face an ever-growing web of rules and regulations. We stand ready with deep legal, technical and industry expertise to empower leading banks, asset managers, insurers and market infrastructure providers in their highest-stake projects.
Our global team tracks evolving technologies and regulations, maintaining close relationships with authorities so our clients aren’t caught off guard by shifting priorities. We advise across the entire financial services spectrum – whether you’re adapting to new policy developments, refining product strategies or executing transformative fintech transactions.
When pressure mounts, we’re at your side. Our specialists handle supervisory visits, enforcement actions and major investigations. We also bring robust dispute resolution capabilities to protect what matters most.
Freshfields' multidisciplinary strength is your competitive advantage. We harness seamlessly integrated expertise from Corporate, Antitrust, IP/Data, Dispute Resolution, Finance, People & Reward and Tax teams to deliver comprehensive support. This unified approach addresses every angle of your most complex challenges, enabling you to focus on delivering innovation.
We’ve partnered with the largest financial market players on mission-critical deals, compliance hurdles and high-profile disputes. Our clients trust us for end-to-end representation across the financial services landscape – so they can stay agile, confident and ready for what’s next.
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Highlight experience
London Stock Exchange Group’s 10-year, multi-billion-dollar strategic partnership with Microsoft
For next-generation data and analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions represents the next stage in LSEG’s transformation into the leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.
Defending Mastercard against one of the first major opt-out collective actions under the new regime introduced by the UK's Consumer Rights Act 2015
Brought on behalf of around 46 million UK consumers for a total of £14 billion in damages, this is the largest claim ever brought before the UK courts.
