Shoosmiths’ highly-regarded financial services team advises a diverse range of businesses and institutions that operate across the sector. Many of our team have worked in-house in financial services, meaning we’re able to use our in-depth sector knowledge to anticipate issues and identify solutions for clients.
Our multi-disciplinary team works collaboratively to provide strategically important and critical support to our clients, including:
- transactional: managing all types of transactions from start to finish, ensuring a smooth and cohesive process
- regulation and compliance: helping to find the optimum path between regulatory and enforcement risks with regard for commercial realism, and regulatory investigations
- portfolio management, restructuring and investment disposals
- innovative products: advising on new products, using our detailed knowledge of the market
- tailored advice on related disciplines and skills including FinTech, data & privacy, commercial contracts, real estate, tax and employment advice
Clients we work for include UK and international major banks, independent banks, the finance arms of major corporates, private equity teams and other professional service businesses. Our teams support all segments of the financial services sector, from mainstream lenders, such as real estate and leveraged finance, to alternative funding providers, such as automotive, asset finance and ABL. We also support the whole financial services eco support system providing advice to intermediaries, professional services, asset managers, investors, FinTech businesses, private equity houses and venture capital backed businesses.
Many of our client relationships stretch back for decades and are formed across the entire portfolio of services those clients are seeking, portraying the strong partnering approach we take with our clients.
