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Freshfields’ top-tier financial regulatory practice works seamlessly across major business and financial hubs in EMEA, the US and APAC.

The intellectual capital of the team spans decades of work on the most complex regulatory requirements, multijurisdictional matters and thought-leadership initiatives.​

Our lawyers are known for their advisory and transactional work with the largest financial markets participants on both the buy and sell side, including banks, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, private wealth and boutique M&A, market infrastructure players and fintech firms.

As well as advising on the most important transactions in the sector, recent work includes transformational Brexit-related mandates, which involve helping clients analyse their businesses in light of a base-case Brexit scenario and developing contingency plans to address the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU. 

Clients also come to us for bespoke advice on the full range of regulatory issues, including licensing, governance, culture and conduct, as well as regulatory capital and recovery and resolution planning.

At our clients’ request, the practice team provides market-leading legal and strategic commentary in our monthly FS Insights newsletter.

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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 GroupLondon 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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ContactsMeet the team
London
Emma RachmaninovPartner
Frankfurt am Main
Alexander GlosPartner & Co-head Financial Institutions Group
Hong Kong
Matthew O'CallaghanPartner
New York
David SewellPartner & US Head of Financial Services Regulatory
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May 1 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.

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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