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Slaughter and May Offices

Slaughter and May
ONE BUNHILL ROW
LONDON
EC1Y 8YY
England
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Nick Bonsall

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020 7090 4276 [email protected]

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 > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory

(Leading partners)

Nick Bonsall – Slaughter and May

Counting international banks, insurers, investment groups, market infrastructure operators and asset managers among its key roster of clients, Slaughter and May handles a broad range of advisory, transactional and strategic regulatory mandates. Jan Putnis, who maintains a strong track record in handling financial services regulatory matters and cross-border transactions, jointly leads the practice alongside Nick Bonsall, who is praised as ‘a truly outstanding figure in the market’. Bonsall continues to showcase an interest in EU/UK regulatory regimes for solvency/own funds and governance, while ‘standout partner’ David Shone acts for a range of financial institutions, financial technology enterprises and challenger banks. Other key contacts in the group include Sabine Dittrich and Kristina Locmele.

London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory

The ‘technically strong, pragmatic and efficient‘ insurance practice at Slaughter and May is well regarded for its work advising clients in the pension de-risking market for insurers and associated reinsurance transactions. Jonathan Marks sits at the helm of the practice, which benefits from his significant knowledge of corporate and life and non-life insurance matters. Nick Bonsall has a keen eye for strategic advisory mandates stemming from the financial services sector. Nick Pacheco is frequently called upon by large insurers to assist with Part VII transfers. Its partner offering was also recently strengthened by the promotion of Thomas Peacock, who specialises in the risk transfer market, in May 2024.

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