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Nick Bonsall
Work Department
Financial Regulation
Global Investigations
Banking and Finance
Cyber
Regulatory Capital
Position
Partner; Nick is a partner in our Financial Regulation Group and a member of our Financial Institutions Group. He has a broad financial institutions practice, with extensive experience advising insurers, banks and asset managers on a range of stand-alone advisory and transactional projects. Nick also supports financial services clients on supervisory and contentious regulatory matters concerning UK and overseas regulators.
He is regularly called upon to advise on complex prudential regulatory matters, and has a keen interest in and understanding of the EU / UK regulatory regimes for solvency/own funds and governance, and also on transactions designed to create capital efficiency or otherwise be accretive to solvency / capital ratios.
Nick frequently advises on financial institution reorganisations and portfolio acquisitions/disposals, including by way of the UK Part VII process. As part of this work, he advised one of the largest UK retail banks throughout its preparation for and implementation of measures to comply with the UK retail banking ring-fencing regime.
Nick is a member of Slaughter and May’s Brexit Committee and sits on the Financial Markets Law Committee’s scoping group for insurance. He is the co-author of the UK chapter of The Banking Regulation Review and the author of the EU chapter of The Asset Management Review (both published by Law Business Research).
Career
Joined Slaughter and May 2007. Partner since 2016. Nick is a co-author of the United Kingdom chapter of the Banking Regulation Review.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
Slaughter and May remains at the forefront of the insurance industry through the ‘depth and breadth‘ of its offering, with a strong offering across the full range of transactional, regulatory, and strategic matters. Able to draw upon the firm’s leading regulatory capital, financial regulation, and insurance disputes teams among other practices, the firm is well-placed to comprehensively service the most high-profile insurers in their major, cross-border mandates. Jonathan Marks heads the insurance group with a broad corporate and insurance practice that covers the life and non-life sectors. Nick Bonsall deploys his ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of insurance regulation‘ in addition to his experience across the wider financial services sector. Natalie Cook and Nick Pacheco are both part of the wider corporate and financial services group, and have advised major insurers on their multijurisdictional operations in respect of strategy and structuring issues. Senior counsel Thomas Peacock and Edward Steward are also of note, bringing expertise in the risk transfer market, and insurance and banking business transfer schemes respectively. Craig Cleaver retired from partnership in December 2022 and Robert Chaplin departed the firm in October 2022 to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP.
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
(Next Generation Partners)Fielding a team of ‘high-quality lawyers with excellent market knowledge and commercial acumen’, Slaughter and May handles a broad range of financial services regulatory matters, including advisory issues, such as policy developments, and the regulatory aspects of large-scale transactions. Practice leader Jan Putnis services a diverse roster of financial institutions, with notable expertise in cross-border corporate and commercial transactions, while Nick Bonsall acts for insurers, banks and asset managers, demonstrating a keen interest in the EU/UK regulatory regimes for solvency/own funds and governance. Other key contacts in the team include senior counsels Kristina Locmele and Tim Fosh, and ‘pragmatic’ David Shone. Head of the EU financial regulation practice Sabine Dittrich joined the firm from UBS Asset Management in January 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory London > Insurance
- Next Generation Partners London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Property finance
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)