Nigel Brahams, credited for ‘combining sharp legal insight with practical judgment’, leads the financial services practice at Collyer Bristow LLP, and handles a range of mandates concerning cryptoasset regulation and blockchain, payments and e-money, in addition to brokerage and derivatives.
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- ‘The team have a good spread of experience and capabilities that allow them to cover reasonably complex topics while assigning the work to appropriate levels in order to keep costs down. Generally responsive, practical and always friendly.’
- ‘The team at Collyer Bristow have a breadth of knowledge in the technology space which is unparalleled in my experience. They have been invaluable in building our proposition in a number of areas which have been instrumental in development of the company.’
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Our client https://www.fxcm.com/uk/ is one of the world’s leading online FX trading houses, winning a number of awards including FXEMPIRE’s ‘Best Overall UK Broker 2023’ and recognition from Compare Forex Brokers 2025 as ‘Best Trading App’. We have worked with them previously on reviewing their terms of business and this year provided a legal opinion explaining their business in support of their plans to expand to a new continent. This required our detailed understanding of their business model.
Our client https://www.fxcm.com/uk/ is one of the world’s leading online FX trading houses, winning a number of awards including FXEMPIRE’s ‘Best Overall UK Broker 2023’ and recognition from Compare Forex Brokers 2025 as ‘Best Trading App’. We have worked with them previously on reviewing their terms of business and this year provided a legal opinion explaining their business in support of their plans to expand to a new continent. This required our detailed understanding of their business model.