Financial Services

• • • Advising fintech company Wealthify on a strategic investment by Aviva
    • Drafting and advising on the terms and conditions of business for financial services and FCA-authorised businesses, including authorised representative agreements and drafting the terms and conditions for a junior ISA product
    • Advising on the implications of the Insurance Distribution Directive and interaction with the FCA Handbook for a dental business
    • Consumer credit advice for lenders and brokers, drafting and advising on regulated consumer credit agreements and advising on consumer credit disputes
    • Advising financial services companies on devising and implementing a best practice regulatory strategy for money laundering and data protection
    • Advising a charity on the mis-selling of a multimillion-pound hedging product and breach of the COBS rules
    • Advising on the setting up of a cross-border medtech fund and ensuring its ability to trade on an international exchange from a regulatory perspective

Competition

• • • Seconded to and advising the Western Europe business unit of The Coca-Cola Company on UK and EU competition law matters, including European merger control rules, best practice training on anti-competitive behaviour, structural and commercial arrangements, and exclusivity and dominance in the UK and certain EU markets
    • Advising UK Government, Scottish Government, local authorities across England and major telecoms providers on UK state aid clearances, EU General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER) and wider competition law matters
    • Representing a national transportation and logistics group and several other smaller logistic businesses in pursuing claims for damages against several major truck manufacturers following findings by the European Commission on involvement in a price-fixing cartel and breaking EU antitrust rules
    • Advising a national managed services provider, who specialises in public healthcare contracts, in relation to the anti-competitive effect of the structure of the NHS’s supply chain contracts
    • Advising a leading international geospatial data and technology business on competition law compliance and training, dawn raids, merger issues, market dominance and definition
    • Advising medtech patent holders on competition law issues around pan-EU patent/IPR licensing and contractual arrangements, and the application of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption (TTBE) to certain product or technology markets
    • Advising a leading UK university with an international reputation for teaching and research excellence on a £multimillion IP commercialisation programme, including competition law, state aid and EU public procurement issues
    • Advising extensively on the state aid issues arising from the spin-out and sale of publicly-owned assets
    • Advising a university on the state aid issues arising from a £300 million major development project, including the application of the Market Economy Investor Principle
    • Advising a local authority on state aid compliance relating to the administration of various national and EU funding streams

Environmental

• • • Defences against most regulatory bodies, including health and safety, environmental, food, planning, waste, trading standard and employment-related matters
    • Series of seminars/training and follow up advice to board level of large multisite (and multinational) organisations, such as Serco, Siemens TC, BAM Nuttall, Amcor, University of Bristol/West of England/Oxford/South Wales, Rail Company on corporate and individual accountability in health and safety and other relevant law, such as corporate manslaughter

Accolades

• The Banking & Finance Team is ranked Band 2 by Chambers and Partners
• The Banking & Finance Team is ranked Tier 2 in The Legal 500

Testimonials

“The Team is commercially astute and pragmatic.”