Financial services disputes and investigations

Disputes will inevitably arise in the financial services sector because of the sheer volume, complexity and value of the transactions.

Our role is to bring clarity to every situation, through an expert understanding of the regulatory regimes and experience of judicial and other dispute resolution processes.

We have a strong culture of costs transparency and have developed sophisticated project management and budgeting tools which are used to give our clients maximum control. We also have a reputation for innovation and seeking continuous improvement in the delivery of our legal services.
 
Our UK teams have over 130 lawyers providing dispute management advice to domestic and international banks, fund managers, brokers and proprietary traders. It comprises highly experienced litigators, arbitration and ADR specialists, regulatory lawyers, civil and criminal fraud lawyers and specialists in tax, insurance, media, insolvency and anti-trust.

Our work also includes inquiries, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, requests for assistance and the defence of clients in civil and criminal proceedings.

Our dispute resolution experience includes the following areas:

• inquiries and investigations
• financial services and markets regulation
• fraud and financial crime
• bribery and corruption
• global banking and markets disputes
• commercial and retail disputes
• consumer finance trends/disputes
• professional negligence
• asset finance and receivables finance disputes

For further information on our global experience, please see our global financial services dispute investigations pages.

What others say

Testimonials

Eversheds LLP has won a number of prestigious panel appointments, and has invested heavily in relationships with existing financial services clients by the placing of core team members in multiple secondments. Recent work includes acting in a €1.6bn dispute involving a range of issues relating to structured products.”

Eversheds has a strong network of offices across the UK, making it well placed to advise clients on both regional and national matters. It acts for a number of clearing banks on both strategic and volume litigation, with the lawyers' expertise encompassing mortgage fraud and title rectification, distressed lending and professional negligence

Chambers, banking litigation, the Regions

It comes back not just to myself, but also to the business people to whom I have to report. They were very impressed with the Eversheds team. They dealt directly with the business here on quite technical, complicated issues. They gained the confidence of the business and demonstrated that they understood the issues very quickly. They could converse and ask relevant questions and challenged the business people here in respect of the issue itself. This was very impressive."

Hermes Fund Managers Limited

The team was exceptional. They gave a very holistic service by helping to identify the problem and by coming up with a fairly novel way of solving it. It was not just a matter of it being a pure academic pursuit. I think that there was a certain amount of creativity involved in the solution."

Phoenix Group Holdings

On the question of the team demonstrating relevant knowledge of our business, once we had explained our business and the hedge fund product they were brilliant."

Rogge Global Partners

The team was very good in everything they did and turned the job around very quickly. The overall result was what we needed to achieve."

Schroders plc