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Slaughter and May
ONE BUNHILL ROW
LONDON
EC1Y 8YY
England

Living Wage

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Work Department

Financial Regulation
Financial Institutions Group
Asset Management
Banking and Finance
Corporate and M&A
Global Investigations

Position

Partner; Jan is Head of our Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of our Financial Institutions Group.

Jan’s practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with particular emphasis on regulatory advice (both contentious and non-contentious) and multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial transactions. He acts for a broad range of financial institutions, including banks, investment banks, brokers, insurance and reinsurance groups, market infrastructure operators, asset managers and fintech businesses.

Jan has been at the forefront of the industry’s thought leadership on the impact of Brexit, which includes working with several industry bodies, such as UK Finance and TheCityUK. He is recognised as a leading individual in the ‘Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory’ section of Chambers UK, and is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010). He is a regular contributor to PLC Magazine and a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee.

Career

Joined firm 1994. Partner since 2003.

Lawyer Rankings

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

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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 partnerDavid 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.