Headed up by Ferdisha Snagg, recognised by clients for her ‘wealth of diverse experience’, the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton team stands out for its seamless collaboration with the firm’s EU and US departments, handling a range of complex regulatory matters, including derivatives, regulatory capital, bank structural reform and capital markets transactions. Snagg’s workload covers EU financial markets regulation, Basel III implementation, and financial collateral arrangements, with a niche specialism in the evolving legal frameworks surrounding distributed ledger technology and cryptoassets.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Client satisfaction: NPS ®
Testimonials
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- ‘Polina Lyadnova is an excellent lead partner. She is knowledgeable, her advice is quick but considered, detailed but commercial. She is available and responsive and easy to work with. Her team is always on the front line providing almost all the advice, again quick, detailed and commercial, but Polina's presence behind the scenes is always felt.’
‘The team is very responsive and pragmatic; they have taken the time to get to know our business and are therefore able to provide commercially viable advice.’
Key clients
- Edenred
- BNP Paribas
Work highlights
Advised EDENRED on the financial regulatory aspects of its partnership with Monese, a banking services provider.
Lawyers
Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Ferdisha Snagg
Other key lawyers
Polina Lyadnova