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Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory

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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP

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The ‘extremely agile and highly reliable team’ at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP is noted for its robust transatlantic payments and fintech offering, with demonstrable experience in handling IPOs, asset and sale purchases involving regulated financial services clients. ’Consistently helpful, engaged and solutions-orientated‘, fintech expert Dan Jones leads the practice and counts retail and investment banks, asset managers, e-money issuers and payments services providers, crypto-asset issuers, wallets and exchanges among his key roster of clients. Guy Stevenson is also a key contact in the group.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Practical, timely and straightforward legal advice.’

  • ‘Dan Jones is consistently helpful, engaged and solutions-orientated when solving AML, payments and client resourcing issues.’

  • ‘Dan Jones and Guy Stevenson are great to work with, guiding us through the European landscape.’

  • ‘An extremely agile and highly reliable team with a strong understanding on complex matters pertaining to the financial service regulations from a cross-border perspective.’

  • ‘The Orrick team in London provided seamless and responsive service. We were very happy with their expertise and responsiveness.’

  • ‘The team understands our business well and how the regulatory requirements apply to it. Their deep understanding allows them to provide straightforward and actionable advice.’

  • 'Dan Jones has provided thoughtful and practical advice, and is available to analyse issues at all hours.’

Key clients

  • AlphaFX
  • Ego Death Capital
  • FastSpring
  • Gateway Lab Inc.
  • Griffin Bank
  • Marriott Inc.
  • NerdWallet
  • Onafriq
  • Paysend Ltd.
  • PNC Bank

Work highlights

Supported Alpha FX with regulatory due diligence on a potential trading partner, which involved advising on regulation applicable to the trading partner’s business operating model and practical steps to be taken to meet due diligence obligations.
Supported global digital payment processing platform FastSpring with an analysis of the application of PSD2 to FastSpring’s business model and guidance on regulatory communications in relevant jurisdictions.
Providing ongoing regulatory counsel to Onafriq, a global payment services provider with one of the largest client bases for payment services across the African continent.

Practice head

Dan Jones

Other key lawyers

Guy Stevenson