Banking & Financial Markets Disputes

We closely guard our ability to act against the major investment banks and most international financial conglomerates. With a long track record of successful and creative legal and procedural strategies we meet your sophisticated objectives.

As a market-leading law firm, with a band 1 Chambers ranking, 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. Where appropriate, we also work alongside third-party funders as well as on a contingency basis on suitable matters. We also have experience of conducting financial markets group litigation.

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 involving all manner of reference products. 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 withdrawal of facilities arising from sanctions, reputational or other reasons, to high value APP fraud. Securities litigation, through sharia-compliant structures to our market leading cryptocurrency disputes practice.

These are just examples. Please contact us to see how we can resolve your situation.

Working as a single, cohesive team across our offices in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, we collaborate with our legal colleagues on regulatory, competition, insolvency, and restructuring issues related to your dispute. And when matters cross borders, we will find and collaborate with the best local dispute lawyers through our carefully vetted network across more than 200 jurisdictions.

As your chosen legal advisers, we work relentlessly to achieve the outcomes you need. Ask us for specialist banking and financial markets legal advice and support.