Leveraging its global reach, Dentons is well-placed to advise on both domestic and cross-border investigations. Credited for its ‘truly collegiate approach’, the team handles regulatory and dual track investigations for a wide array of financial institutions, asset managers, banks, insurers and brokers. Praised for her ’solid all-round knowledge’, Katharine Harle regularly handles cross-border matters involving multiple regulators. Her workload covers enforcement actions concerning market misconduct, financial crime, CASS breaches, systems and controls failings, Principle 11 breaches, complaints handling, and governance failures. Louisa Caswell‘s recent workload has focused on regulatory regimes involving consumer redress, as well as high-profile judicial review challenges. Zeena Saleh’s focus encompasses systems and controls failures, corporate governance reviews, market abuse, insider dealing, financial crime, and non-financial misconduct, frequently supporting clients facing stringent regulatory supervision. The firm has been strengthened by the arrival of partners Andrew Barber from Pinsent Masons, and Joanna Dimmock from Paul Hastings.
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Testimonials
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‘Felicity Ewing, Lara Seabourne and Katy Macaskill have a detailed knowledge of financial services litigation, and assess litigation risk with a close attention to detail and a keen understanding of their clients' interests. They also operate effectively and efficiently as a team. For FSCS work, they are excellent.’
‘Made strides in this area in past few years; good on client liaison.’
‘Katherine Harle has solid all-round knowledge.’
‘Dentons has an extraordinary team of specialist financial services litigators, with vast resources of experience to draw on. They can deal with high-value and extremely legally complex disputes but are also well-placed to manage high-volume and more standardised matters, with appropriate fee-offerings to match.’
‘The team take a truly collegiate approach, meaning that the expertise in the firm is deployed most effectively for clients. Tom Leyland, Felicity Ewing, Lara Seaborne and Katharine Harle are all brilliant lawyers and extremely good to work with.’
‘Great team, excellent knowledge and service.’
Key clients
- FCA
- FSCS
- Liontrust Asset Management
Work highlights
Acting for the FCA in the high-profile judicial review brought by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking, challenging the FCA's decision not to seek to compel retail banks to provide further redress to the 2012/13 Interest Rate Hedging Products Redress Scheme.
Advising FSCS in connection with a matter relating to the collapse of Active Wealth which was heavily involved in the British Steel Pension Scheme.
Acting for FSCS in connection with the collapse of a number of financial services firms which have recently entered into special administration under the Investment Bank Special Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2011.
Lawyers
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Zeena Saleh
Lara Seabourne
Practice head
Katharine Harle; Louisa Caswell
Other key lawyers
Zeena Saleh; Felicity Ewing; Lara Seabourne; Katy Macaskill; Tom Leyland; Andrew Barber; Joanna Dimmock