FinTech Legal: Corporate, Securities & Financing - London (Firms)
What the team is known for
Ashurst advises global financial institutions and FinTech startup businesses. The firm brings a multidisciplinary approach to the sector and also runs its FinTech Legal Labs accelerator scheme which is designed to bring together FinTech businesses, investors and other market participants.
Strengths
"They are very strong at understanding problems, and think in a commercial way and how this dovetails with regulation and legal considerations."
Notable practitioners
Bradley Rice advises established market participants, as well as startups, on financial regulatory matters. He works on a broad range of FinTech mandates, including crowdfunding, open banking and crypto-asset issues.
David Futter works on a range of FinTech matters and is particularly experienced in handling procurement mandates and collaborations involving FinTech businesses and the use of new technologies. "David is exceptional. He is extremely knowledgeable, pragmatic, creative and commercial and he has developed such a sophisticated understanding of our business that we consider him to be our go-to guy for practically anything we need assistance with."
Etay Katz is an experienced financial regulatory lawyer. His FinTech work includes advising clients on the use of distributed ledger technology and digital assets. "Etay Katz is outstanding, a go-to for complex regulatory questions and everything banking and payments." "Etay is extremely proactive in the digital assets space. I have really enjoyed working with him. He is abreast of everything that is going on in the industry and this is invaluable."
