Financial Markets & Regulation

... advising all core types of financial institutions (banks, payment institutions, insurance companies, investment firms, and asset managers) on complex matters driven or affected by the supervision and regulation of the financial services industry.

We:

• assist large national and international groups of banks, payment institutions, insurance companies, investment firms, and asset managers with regulatory approvals, permissions and market access, and with supervisory and enforcement proceedings, including litigation against regulators;

• advise on the financial-regulatory aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other transactions in the financial sector;

• provide expertise on all elements of governance and the structure of business operations, including licensing, compliance frameworks and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements, the structuring of financial services and products, regulatory capital issues and compliance with other rules of prudential supervision, and recovery and resolution planning and execution;

• advise on remuneration and incentive structuring for regulated financial institutions, working closely with our corporate, tax and employment colleagues;

• advise on FinTech, digital assets and crypto-asset regulation, both as stand-alone advice and in the context of transactions; and 

• advise on asset management regulation and pension reform, including EU-level developments;
 

Our experts have decades-long, trusted relationships with the AFM and DNB and are regularly involved in complex, high-stakes discussions and proceedings with regulators. They are also actively involved in legislative processes and, as lecturers and speakers, contribute to the academic development of the supervision and regulation of the wider financial services industry.