Our financial services solicitors are experts in making the complicated simple. We know businesses do not want to be bombarded with jargon, but financial services companies must know how to protect their businesses with the best operational policies and commercial contracts. Should your company become involved in a commercial dispute or face allegations of a breach of industry-specific financial regulations, specialist legal advice is required.
With the attention to detail that individuals in the financial services industry rightly demand from their business solicitors, the financial services lawyers at IMD Solicitors manage to combine expertise and a love of regulatory detail with a strong dose of commercial realism and business acumen.
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Our financial services offering for clients
Whether you are a bank, insurer, fund manager or large or small scale financial advisor; our financial services solicitors can help your firm with a comprehensive range of business law services tailored to the financial services industry and your particular business needs. Our specialist services include:
- data protection and GDPR
- intellectual property
- compliance and regulation
- money laundering and business crime
- cryptocurrency regulation, and investigation
- financial services commercial contracts, including supply chain contracts and digital service providers
- commercial dispute resolution, ranging from commercial litigation to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and arbitration
- sale and purchase of businesses in the financial services industry
- mergers and acquisitions
- joint ventures and franchising agreements for financial service businesses
- global mobility and business immigration for skilled professionals and senior or specialist workers
- employment contracts with reference to the financial services sector, such as bonuses, commission payments, restrictive covenants and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
- tax law relating to corporates, partnerships, alternative business structures and individuals
- tax investigations
IMD Corporate financial services expertise
Our financial services solicitors have expertise in:
- delivering corporate solutions
- offering pragmatic commercial solutions
- global mobility solutions to attract financial services talent
- employment contracts and resolving employment disputes
- proactive compliance and regulatory services
- customer disputes
- shareholder disputes
- directors disputes
- intellectual-property disputes
- competition and antitrust claims
- commercial debt collection
- insolvency matters
- tax law services and investigations
IMD Solicitors – the right lawyers for your business
As a full-service law firm, our business lawyers are passionate about their areas of specialism and the sectors in which they have substantial experience in providing pragmatic commercial advice. With our business clients, we like to think of ourselves as a team, helping your final services company develop and adapt the regulatory compliant policies and procedures it requires as well as negotiating your commercial contracts to reduce the risk of commercial litigation.
Whether you are an established financial services company, a start-up, an ambitious team looking to do an MBO, or simply wanting to scale up, your business needs equally ambitious and forward-thinking financial services lawyers. IMD Solicitors are the solutions-driven financial services lawyers for your business.
IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and several European cities, with many trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters governed by UK or EU law.
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List of notable commercial cases
- Advising one of the largest European banks on a number of occasions in respect of validity and construction of guarantees and on demand bonds, together with validity of agreements varying the guarantees and the underlying multi-million facility agreements.
- Advising on the establishment of a large entertainment company. Preparing various corporate and investment documents and leading extensive negotiations of shareholder agreement and ancillary documents. In addition, we provided various legal support to the company on on-going basis.
- Acting for a major automotive manufacturer in a joint venture with a UK company to commence production and distribution on the product in the UK and the Commonwealth. Negotiating and preparing all the relevant joint venture documents.
- Acting for the construction company in a large scale building project of circa £25m. Involved in negotiating an extensive JCT D&B contract as between our client (main contractor) and the local authority who were their client in this project.
- Drafting Terms & Conditions and Warranty terms for a leading UK manufacturer of steel doors, windows and partitions.
- Representing a sub-contractor in construction contract negotiations involving a large number of parties for construction of a museum in Kuwait.
- Advising on and drafting SaaS (Software as a Service) contract for the Client entering the UK market
- Advising on both pro-supplier and pro-customer Software Development Agreements for various Clients
- Advised a technology start up to set up and validate a messaging app, a direct competitor to Facebook’s Messenger
- Advising the client on and negotiating terms of corporate and personal guarantees tied to a cross-border commercial contract.
- Assisting a charity in preparation of various terms and conditions and contractual agreements.
- Advising the client on the terms of a joint venture agreement in an innovative waste management project.
- Advised the first Polish-owned bridging company in the UK
- Advising the client on the validity of execution of a number of international corporate finance agreements.
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