Open navigation
Search
Offices – United Kingdom
Explore all Offices
Global Reach

Apart from offering expert legal consultancy for local jurisdictions, CMS partners up with you to effectively navigate the complexities of global business and legal environments.

Explore our reach
Insights – United Kingdom
Explore all insights
Search
Expertise
Insights

CMS lawyers can provide future-facing advice for your business across a variety of specialisms and industries, worldwide.

Explore topics
Offices
Global Reach

Apart from offering expert legal consultancy for local jurisdictions, CMS partners up with you to effectively navigate the complexities of global business and legal environments.

Explore our reach
Insights
About CMS
UK Pay Gap Report 2024

Learn more

Select your region

Financial Services & Regulation

Our Financial Services & Regulation team can provide a wide range of legal services advice associated with the regulated financial sector.

Latest

The daily challenges you face in doing business in a highly regulated, cost-pressured environment mean you need advisers who have an unparalleled understanding of the regulators’ expectations and are commercial, practical and industry savvy.

With leading practices in the UK’s two biggest financial services centres, London and Edinburgh, our team combines wholesale and retail, contentious and non-contentious expertise across banking, insurance, asset management and financial intermediation. You can be assured we understand the regulatory context in which you operate and recognise the importance of finding commercial solutions.

Our specialist regulatory lawyers advise retail and wholesale financial services firms on managing regulatory risk and resolving and avoiding regulatory action and disputes.

Having represented firms in over 400 regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, our team combines knowledge of regulated businesses with a clear understanding of what the regulators require.

We use that experience to help clients manage and grow their businesses through the development of new products, services and distribution channels.

RegZone is our award winning online guide to financial services and reform. It provides news, expert analysis, research tools, training and access to events. Register for free to receive a personalised service to your inbox.

Our specialist practice areas

Awards & Recognitions
01
  • Quote
    "The team is very pragmatic, knowledgeable and really quick to respond. The lawyers demonstrate a strong level of experience and find consistency in levels of knowledge and expertise."
    Chambers, 2026
  • Quote
    "The firm has a breadth of lawyers with many different regulatory specialisms who give industry informed views on regulatory issues."
    Chambers, 2026
  • Quote
    "CMS lawyers have industry knowledge, an approachable style and considerable experience of negotiating agreements."
    Chambers, 2026
  • Quote
    "Large multidisciplinary financial services regulatory practice with specialisms in insurance, asset management, wealth management, pensions, fintech/crypto, ESG, outsourcings, cross-border regulation and more. Has both breadth and depth in order to manage larger multi-faceted projects and smaller discrete technical advice."
    Legal 500, 2026
  • Quote
    "Huge team with extremely broad-ranging capabilities and deep expertise."
    Legal 500, 2026
  • Quote
    “The team functions incredibly well as a whole. I feel CMS’s knowledge of what we do, our approach and the wider industry overall is exceptional.”
    Chambers UK 2022, Financial Services
  • Quote
    “They are a hugely practical and pragmatic team. They're very sensible, get to the heart of the issues efficiently and have a deep understanding of the market.”
    Chambers UK 2022, Financial Services

Events

  • United Kingdom
    18 Mar 2026

    Green claims in focus

  • United Kingdom
    19 Mar 2026

    CMS Nordic Health Summit

  • United Kingdom
    19 Mar 2026

    Delivering Offshore Wind at Scale

  • United Kingdom
    19 Mar 2026

    CMS Scotland Brand Forum

  • United Kingdom
    23 Mar 2026

    Skills for Future Facing Teams: Creating a team culture of coaching and feedback

  • United Kingdom
    23 Mar 2026

    CMS at PTMG Spring 2026

  • United Kingdom
    23 Mar 2026

    ESG: Breaking Down the Buzzword

  • United Kingdom
    08 Apr 2026

    CMS at Fordham IP & Policy Conference

  • United Kingdom
    21 Apr 2026

    On the Pulse webinar series 2026 - Spring/Summer

  • United Kingdom
    21 Apr 2026

    Future of Renewables Spring Seminar

  • United Kingdom
    28 Apr 2026

    Strategic expansion to India: A new chapter for UK higher education

  • United Kingdom
    28 Apr 2026

    IP Insights webinar series 2026

  • United Kingdom
    28 Apr 2026

    Future of Renewables Spring Seminars

Back to top Back to top
Warning: Fraudulent emails and messages