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Fieldfisher

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Led by Simon Lafferty, the ‘highly intelligent’ team at Fieldfisher provides an ’extremely efficient’ service to a wide range of entities, including retail asset managers and City broker dealers, on their dealings with the FCA. The team is often successful in remediating problems when faced with intervention action. Duncan Black is ‘calm, considered and informed’, melding his advisory and contentious expertise to good effect for clients facing regulatory scrutiny, including in relation to allegations of market abuse, and seeking to minimise the punitive effect of such action. Formerly in-house at the FCA, the ’knowledgeable, practical and determined’ Sam Clyndes has excellent insight into the regulator’s mindset and has been pivotal to the firm’s success for clients facing intervention action.
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  • ‘The team is highly intelligent, extremely efficient and excels at competitive strategy. Every matter is run in a streamlined fashion with client welfare at the heart of each and every careful decision.’

  • ‘The team has excellent regulatory and financial services knowledge, with industry and a wide variety of professional experience in the team. This is combined with a very commercial approach to negotiation.'

  • 'Duncan Black is calm, considered and informed. His contributions are always insightful and valuable, he provides the right level of guidance for his team which reflect his leadership.’

  • ‘Sam Clyndes is a knowledgeable, practical and determined lawyer. He is also a shrewd legal professional and negotiator.'

  • 'There is clearly a close working relationship within the team and wider firm. There is always a very high degree of confidence the position represented by the individuals is that of the team and firm.'

Key clients

  • Hugo Van Kuffeler

Work highlights

  • Acting for the former director of a Cayman Hedge fund who was sued for breach of directors' duties arising out of a loss-making investment.

Lawyers

Practice head

Simon Lafferty

Other key lawyers

Duncan Black; Sam Clyndes