Practice areas

We advise banks, other financial institutions and companies in respect of a broad range of problems, risk management issues and disputes arising in respect of activities and products in investment, commercial and retail banking, and finance, including:

• asset management;
• capital markets;
• commercial lending;
• derivatives;
• distressed corporate and sovereign debt;
• foreign exchange;
• fund management;
• hedge funds;
• international trade finance;
• investment trusts; and
• project, acquisition and structured finance.

Our experience and expertise in relation to derivatives and derivative structures includes advising in respect of collateralised debt obligations, credit default swaps, structured investment vehicles, mortgage-backed securities, synthetic derivatives, swaps including total return swaps, and options.

The frequent overlap between financial services investment business and banking and finance related disputes, requires us also to bring to bear our considerable expertise in financial services regulation.