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Freshfields navigates regulatory changes, advises on M&A, ensures compliance and resolves complex disputes for financial institutions including banks, asset managers, insurers, market infrastructure providers and fintechs. Our global approach and cross-practice expertise empower your success in a rapidly evolving market.
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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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We provide advice across the entire spectrum of financial services, offering valuable insights into the latest regulatory, market, and governance developments.

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London Stock Exchange Group

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.  

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Mastercard

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.   

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Contacts

Meet the team
New York

David Sewell

Partner & US Head of Financial Services Regulatory
London, Dublin

Simon Orton

Partner & Co-head Financial Institutions Group
Frankfurt am Main

Alexander Glos

Partner & Co-head Financial Institutions Group
Hong Kong

Matthew O'Callaghan

Asia Managing Partner
Meet the team

Awards & recognition

FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2024

‘Most Innovative Lawyers in Deals and Financing’ for advising UBS on the acquisition of Credit Suisse

FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe 2023

‘Most Innovative Lawyers in Technology’ for advising LSEG on strategic tech partnership with Microsoft

Chambers UK Guide 2025

Band 1 - Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory

Chambers Europe Guide 2024

Germany: Band 1 - Banking & Finance: Regulatory

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Our thinking

Jul 17 2025

The FCA and HM Treasury proposals for targeted support: Navigating the opportunities and challenges of the new regime

Jun 5 2025

Financial services hub

Our market-leading financial services practice provides integrated advice to leading financial institutions in the world’s major business and financial hubs.

Feb 12 2025

Digital Assets Under Trump 2.0: The Emerging View from Capitol Hill

Since President Trump’s second inauguration, few issues in the financial services space have received as much attention in Washington as...
Feb 7 2025

The new UK regime for public offer platforms: the FCA consults on further proposals

An important element of the UK’s new public offers and admissions to trading regime is the introduction of the public offer platform...
Blog
Feb 6 2025

Amendments to the Investment Ordinance (AnlV): more infrastructure, risk capital and flexibility

The German version of this article is available here. The government’s draft bill of the 2nd Company Pension Strengthening Act of 18...
Feb 6 2025

Änderung der Anlageverordnung: mehr Infrastruktur, Risikokapital und Flexibilität

Die englische Version dieses Artikels finden Sie hier. Der Regierungsentwurf zum 2. Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetz vom 18. September 2024,...
Feb 6 2025

FCA publicity consultation: ‘How not to regulate’

The House of Lord’s Financial Services Regulation Committee has today published its report on the FCA’s publicity consultation, Naming...
Feb 5 2025

UK FCA sets out key expectations of payments firms in “Dear CEO” letter

On 3 February 2025, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Dear CEO letter to payments firms that are supervised by the...
Feb 3 2025

Regulating for sustainable growth in the UK: What to expect in 2025

In her first Mansion House speech (on 14 November 2024), Rachel Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer covered, amongst other...

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