Bevan Brittan’s financial services team draws together multi-disciplinary legal and regulatory expertise to provide our clients with a fully integrated service.

Senior members of our financial services sector team have industry and regulatory experience; junior members are encouraged to develop an intimate experience of our clients’ needs and working practices through a rolling programme of secondments.

This year's Legal 500 (published September 2008) commented that we have impressed our clients with our ability to pull together "a highly motivated and expert team at short notice and get the right result.”

We advise our clients in relation to the following:

Regulatory

• The scope of FSA regulation (and other relevant related regulation, for example, the Banking Code, Consumer Credit Act and the Solicitors Code of Conduct)


• The impact of regulatory change


• FSA Authorisation applications


• Financial Promotions


• Compliance/risk management and principles based regulation


• Treating Customers Fairly (TCF)

• Non routine FSA authorisation and approval applications


• Complaints/Customer communications/Legacy issues


• Financial Ombudsman Service adjudications and decisions


• Judicial review


• Data breaches


• Emergency injunctive relief


• Whistleblowers


• Internal corporate investigations in relation to possible fraud and/or regulatory breaches


• FSA Supervision and Enforcement inquiries
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• Distribution arrangements and agreements


• Affinity and white label arrangements


• Broker network arrangements


• Brokers TOBAs


• Delegated authorities


• Respective responsibilities of product providers and distributors


• Disputes within the distribution chain

• Suppliers agreements


• Outsourcing and offshoring arrangements and agreements with third party service suppliers


• Procurement

• Data security


• Marketing and advertising


• E-enablement


• Customer communications

• Branding


• Licensing


• IP Domain name (registration and disputes)


• Product protection

• Constitutional arrangements


• Re-organisations


• Joint ventures


• Commercial transactions


• Major projects


• Asset finance

• Litigation


• Arbitration


• Mediation

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