Recognised as Europe’s largest law firm and as the world’s 6th largest by lawyer headcount, CMS can work for you in over 45 countries from over 80 offices worldwide. Globally 6,800 lawyers offer business-focused advice tailored to our clients’ needs, whether in your local market or across multiple jurisdictions.

Our financial services regulatory, transactional and disputes team of over 80 lawyers is based in the UK’s biggest financial centres, London and Edinburgh, with a specialist disputes team in Bristol. We act on a wide range of non-contentious and contentious work for all types of financial institutions, as well as service providers and large institutional investors. We completely understand the regulatory context in which our clients operate and the importance of finding commercial solutions to their problems.

The CMS Financial Services team has a unique "full service" offering that includes:

• non-contentious regulatory advisory work including governance and conduct of business requirements
• contentious FS investigations and enforcement proceedings
• highly strategic risk transfer transactions in the insurance and reinsurance sector
• one of the leading regulated funds practices
• a litigation team that can efficiently handle all levels of disputes from high-value fraud and mis-selling claims, to BAU recoveries and customer complaints
• a strong FinTech focus – we lead the charge in terms of crowdfunding and crypto-currency regulation

Our clients include including banks, building societies and other finance providers, life and general (re)insurers and intermediaries, broker-dealers, funds and investment managers, markets, platforms and exchanges, investment advisers, payment institutions, FinTech companies and pension funds.