Banking & Financial Markets Disputes

We closely guard our ability to act against the major investment banks, which is unique for a full-service firm of our size. With a long track record of successful and creative legal and procedural strategies tailored to financial markets, we meet your sophisticated objectives. We are proud to be ranked consistently in Band 1 in Chambers UK directory.

We work with buy-side financial institutions, hedge funds, securities issuers, public funds, private equity and private credit funds/managers/investors, pension schemes, investment advisers, asset managers, brokers and dealers, corporates, insolvency office holders, commodity houses, family offices and sophisticated non-retail HNW individual investors and their vehicles.

Using our deep experience we resolve the full spectrum of financial markets disputes from bondholder and noteholder disputes (corporate, agency and sovereign debt through to ABS and the most complex cash and synthetic structured products), to swaps, options, and other derivatives disputes under ISDA terms. From repo (and tri-party repo) and stock lending disputes under GRA, GMRA, GMSLA and bespoke terms to private equity and leveraged loan disputes. Vanilla bank lending disputes, through private credit, to syndicated lending, leveraged loan and LMA terms disputes. Disputes involving sanctions and their impact on contractual obligations, to de-banking and high value APP fraud. Securities litigation, through Norwich Pharmacal applications against banks, to our market leading cryptocurrency disputes practice.