Financial Institutions & Fintech

Arne Grimme + 10 other experts

unique expertise for a unique type of client

Financial Institutions are subject to myriad and ever-evolving regulation affecting their products, services, governance, and processes. Therefore, they need lawyers with a deep understanding of the specific challenges and opportunities they face.

With leading experts in their respective fields, our integrated, multidisciplinary practice has an established track record working both alongside, and within, major financial institutions.

We advise on the most important deals in the financial services market and successfully represent major institutions in litigation, arbitration, and mediation proceedings around the globe.

We help existing market players to navigate fintech developments and to adapt to upcoming regulations, and we advise them seamlessly across borders on the most innovative and complex tech-driven projects and financing.

We also frequently work with emerging fintech companies to achieve their business objectives and protect their intellectual property and know-how within the boundaries of a vast, and sometimes daunting, regulatory regime.

Our Financial Institutions Group is also part of the European Financial Institutions Group set up by our Best Friends Network.

Insights

27 October 2026

Financial sector resilience in the age of AI: regulatory trends and supervisory expectations

Digital operational resilience is becoming an increasingly important issue for the financial sector and its supervisors. This is due not only to ongoing technological developments, including in artificial intelligence, but also to recent cyber incidents affecting or targeting the sector. 
23 October 2026

Opportunistic bondholders' claim dismissed, with documentation interpreted objectively

The interpretation of bond documentation has received the necessary attention over recent years. Large European companies such as Annington, Just Eat Takeaway and TenneT have faced opportunistic bondholder behaviour in the context of event of default clauses. To determine if these types of provisions in bond documentation have been triggered, it is crucial to understand how they must be interpreted. 
30 July 2026

Political feasibility − a recurring feature in European bank M&A

Political influence over bank M&A in the EU is not new, but it has rarely been this visible. Over the past two years, three of Europe’s most consequential bank transactions have shown that commercial rationale, competition clearance and prudential approval alone may not determine a transaction’s prospects. Political feasibility can be equally decisive. Then Vice-President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Luis de Guindos, was blunt in a May 2026 exit interview: "Political interference eats away at the credibility of the Single Market message".