Overview:
We have a leading Banks sector team that are involved in many of the market's ground-breaking
deals. The team consists of a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers drawn from our Finance, Capital
Markets, Corporate, Tax, Litigation and Real Estate practices who have unrivalled breadth and
depth of experience working with Banks globally.
Our specialist knowledge of the sector and its issues enables our lawyers to provide results
driven commercial advice to banks on some of their most complex transactions and to help them
address some of their most challenging business issues.
Bank regulation
We are working alongside financial institutions to meet the challenges of a dramatically
changing regulatory landscape. Our regulatory and capital markets lawyers brings
commercially-focused expertise in navigating the banking regulations. We also play a
significant role in working with regulatory bodies to shape current and proposed frameworks.
Banking products
Changes in market sentiment and the needs of clients has led many banks to refine and update
the product set they offer.
Our market-leading Banking & Finance and Capital Markets practices provide advice in relation
to the full spectrum of financial products including syndicated lending and leveraged and
acquisition finance, asset finance, derivative products, project finance, financial regulatory,
insolvency & restructuring, debt capital markets, equity capital markets, structured debt and
structured finance.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
We have expertise acting for financial institutions in a wide variety of disputes and regulatory
problems across the continent. Our banking litigation lawyers have a deep understanding of the
range of complex financial products and the markets in which our financial institution clients
operate.