DLA Piper continues to assist leading UK financial institutions and multinational banks with retail banking, credit card processing, merchant acquiring, and consumer credit, while also overseeing asset and aviation finance. Practice had Stewart Plant routinely advises payment services and fintech clients worldwide, delivering support across credit card issuing, merchant acquiring, and payment processing. He is supported by Benjamin Fellows, who manages complex disputes and advisory matters spanning breach of contract, negligence, payment services, consumer credit, and asset finance, with particular expertise in data protection and cyber-related incidents.
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- I have worked with Stewart Plant, Leontia McArdle, and Lawrence O'Grady. They are all excellent lawyers, with sound commercial judgment.
- The team I work with at DLA is very client-focused and makes every effort to ensure that they are regularly and comprehensively updated at every step of the proceedings.
- The team is responsive, insightful, and legally astute.
- Ben Fellows is outstanding. He is a brilliant negotiator and lawyer. He is able to see problems much earlier than others and as a result can give his clients hugely valuable advice. A real standout lawyer.
- The real standout partner is Ben Fellows. He very effectively gets to the heart of a problem and provides immensely practical advice. Just brilliant!
- A solid practice capable of dealing with large-scale litigation.
Key clients
- Elavon Financial Services
- N Brown Group plc
- NewDay Ltd
- Payoneer Early Payments Inc
- Revolut Ltd
- Refinitiv Ltd
- Ebury Partners (Belgium) N.V.
Work highlights
Acting for NewDay Ltd in the defence of mass claimant Payment Protection Insurance claims, brought by customers and former customers.
Advising Revolut Ltd on a claim brought by a third party against it in relation to a payment misdirection fraud.
Advising Refinitiv Ltd. on High Court claim against Refinitiv, challenging the inclusion of company in control, MeritKapital, in Refinitiv’s WorldCheck compliance product on data protection grounds.
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Practice head
Stewart Plant
Other key lawyers
Benjamin Fellows; John Gollaglee