With activity across the banking, insurance, and investment funds sectors, Conyers‘ regulatory offering is overseen by Róisín Liddy-Murphy. Liddy-Murphy specialises in regulatory investigations, risk management, and financial regulation, while Sarah Howie is knowledgeable of CIMA licensing and registration, as well as insurance regulation. Other key team members include Cristina Faro, who is a key port of call for InsurTech and FinTech entities.
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- What sets the team apart is its combination of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and responsiveness. They provide clear, practical advice, understand the client’s business, and are consistently accessible when needed. Senior team members remain closely involved, and the collaborative approach gives clients confidence that matters are handled efficiently and with the right expertise.
- The Conyers team has a robust set of sub-groups with coverage in all relevant practice areas applicable to web3 businesses.
- I would note that the team has solid commercial awareness across all practice areas in the web3 space.
Key clients
- Comerica Bank
- Permira Holdings Limited and the Canadian Pension Plan Board
- PwC
- American Honda Motor Co
Work highlights
Assisted with multiple concurrent regulatory applications for licence surrender, de-registration, changes of control, and new licensing and registration applications for a large bank merger project involving the acquisition of Comerica Incorporated by Fifth Third Bancorp.
Advising Permira Holdings Limited and the Canadian Pension Plan Board on a very large scale regulatory change of control application in the Cayman Islands in respect of 12 licensees holding multiple licences across various regulated sectors.
Provided specialised Cayman Islands legal and regulatory advice to Honda in connection with a fatal motor vehicle accident in the Cayman Islands in October 2022.
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Practice head
Róisín Liddy-Murphy
Other key lawyers
Sarah Howie; Cristina Faro; Lana Dixon