We provide legal support in the following legal areas:
Antitrust/Competition
- Cartels
- Abuse of dominance
- Merger Control
- State Aid
Banking and FinTech
- Banking Services
- Payment Services, including merchant acquiring, money remittance, direct debit, credit transfer, payment initiation services and payment account information services
- Accession to the Card Schemes including Visa, MasterCard, Discover, JCB, UnionPay
- Single European Payment Area (SEPA) Rulebooks
- SEPA Schemes Adherence, including Legal Opinions for adhering to SEPA Schemes, i.e. SEPA Credit Transfer, SEPA Direct Debit Core, SEPA Direct Debit B2B, SEPA Instant Credit Transfer.
- Payments trade association representation on behalf of your organisation
- eMoney Services
- Peer-to-peer Lending services
- Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
- Cryptocurrency exchanges
Commercial Contracts
- Master Services Agreements, also referred to as Framework Agreements
- Supplier Agreements
- Consultancy Agreements
- Distribution Agreements
- Agency Agreements
- Marketing Agreements
- Franchising, development and licensing agreements
- Strategic alliances, partnerships, collaborations and joint ventures
- Financing arrangements, including Loan Agreements
- Trust Agreements
- Settlement Agreements
- Intra-group service, licence and/or data transfer Agreements
- Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- Memorandum of Understanding
- Letter of Intent
Corporate and M&A
- Shareholder Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements
- Share Purchase Agreements (SPAs) and related corporate actions
- Director Services Agreements
- Support to the Board of Directors as independent legal adviser
- Non-executive Director or Advisory Committee, Risk Committee representative
- Advising on corporate governance issues including corporate governance and risk committees
- M&A due diligence report
- Corporate and regulatory aspects in relation with M&A activities
- Setting up of UK, international and off-shore corporate entities, including assistance with the opening of bank accounts
- Company Secretariat for both start-ups and established companies
- Business reorganisation, restructuring and insolvency
Regulatory & Compliance
- Anti-money laundering
- Privacy, data protection & cyber-security
- Antitrust/Competition filings
- Regulatory licences and authorisations among others in financial, energy and natural resources, life science, and telecoms sectors
- Card Scheme Licences and Compliance (advice & negotiations)
- Compliance Monitoring Plans
- Corporate Training Programmes
Real Estate
- Lease agreements
- Statutory and other Lease extensions
- Landlord and Tenant disputes
Intellectual Property (IP)
- Trademark registrations
- Patent registrations
- IP agreements
- Copyright and Database Rights
- Anti-counterfeiting
- Design Rights
- Know-how, trade secrets and confidential information
BREXIT & EU Accessions
- Brexit implications for specific aspects of your business
- Accession to the EU – negotiations on behalf of the accession country and/or expert opinions