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England - London • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
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Fintech: regulatory

Reed Smith LLP

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Reed Smith LLP‘s fintech regulatory practice advises clients across the full spectrum of transactional and regulatory matters in the space, including blockchain, digital assets, payments, lending, cybersecurity, venture capital, and data protection. Clients include major financial institutions and early-stage companies, from asset managers and fintech investors to analytics and AI companies. The group’s work includes handling operational resilience and third-party risk matters, advising on regulatory perimeter issues, product launches, and multi-jurisdictional compliance. Claude Brown brings experience in derivatives, fintech regulation, and ESG financial risk. Brett Hillis advises on complex regulatory issues, including market abuse, sanctions, and fintech-related compliance. Romin Dabir has a particular focus on advising alternative fund managers, with a specialism in the formation, structuring, and marketing of funds.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The team is extremely responsive to the point of being brilliant beyond measure.’

  • 'Reed Smith’s fintech regulatory team has demonstrable experience advising on UK regulatory matters relevant to fintech platforms, particularly where authorisation, governance, and transactional regulatory issues are concerned. The team is prompt in responding to queries and capable of distilling legal frameworks into structured advice. The overall approach tends to err on the side of caution, which may suit clients operating in heavily scrutinised segments of the market. However, we found that more innovative or fast-moving fintech models may benefit from advisory teams that engage more deeply with evolving commercial nuances. Compared to others in the market, the team meets expectations, though we have not observed standout differentiation in areas such as billing flexibility, tech enablement, or client engagement.'

Work highlights

Represented Fasanara Capital Ltd an institutional asset manager active in the digital asset space, and Untangled Finance, a real-world asset decentralised finance protocol in respect of the establishment of a structure which enabled the financing of real world assets through a note issuance by a Fasanara securitisation SPV and the use of the real world assets as collateral for a token issuance to accredited investors in the UK and the U.S.