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Whether you are a buy-now-pay-later start-up looking to grow your business, an established financial institution acquiring the latest fintech technologies or a bank consortium looking to outsource your payment solutions, the CMS fintech team is uniquely positioned to support you. From investment agreements and fundraising options to regulatory compliance issues and to outsourcing arrangements, our team combining finance and technology experts provide you with innovative solutions that meet your particular requirements. 

  • Regulation – We have extensive contentious, non-contentious advisory and transactional regulatory expertise. Our team can assist you dealing with financial authorities and handle supervisory and enforcement issues as diverse as capital adequacy, financial crime and distribution channels.
  • Regtech – We have garnered a substantial reputation for our work supporting FinTech businesses, whether it is helping to launch crowdfunding platforms, providing advice to funds and similar businesses that are adopting AI processes in a highly regulated environment, or taking initial coin offerings from concept to launch.
  • Innovation, crowdfunding & Cryptocurrencies – Our team can advise you on the impact of advances in AI, distributed ledger technologies, NFTs, web3, cloud computing, robotics and countless other technologies that are still to come. We can help you to make sure that you are positioned to benefit from them commercially, whilst meeting all legal obligations.
  • Protection of personal data – We help our clients by putting in place adequate procedures, policies and protections against any possible infringement claims or fines.
  • Debt & equity funding – Our specialist banking team advises on loan and security arrangements, while our industry experts advise on the risks specific to each business and on enforcement strategy based on the particular assets. We also advise VC Funds and corporate investors in their investments into start-ups and support business founders of finding funders that help grow their company.

Please browse the sections below to find out more about how we can help you:

Data Protection

Regulation and Regtech

Innovation, Crowdfunding & Crypto-currencies

Lending Transactions

M&A Transactions

Payments

To find out more about our views and hot topics related to FinTech, please take time to browse our Insights section.

To find out more about CMS’ equIP accelerator programme for start-ups please visit our equIP and start-ups section or contact one of our FinTech team.

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Awards & Recognitions
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  • Award
    The Best Digital Assets Law Firm in Europe
    Future of Finance Awards
  • Award
    Best Digital Asset Law Firm
    The Digital Commonwealth Awards 2025

Events

  • United Kingdom
    03 Feb 2026

    Future of Finance: regulatory briefings series 2026

  • United Kingdom
    09 Feb 2026

    Skills For Future Facing Teams: Coaching skills for legal leaders

  • United Kingdom
    12 Feb 2026

    The Class Ceiling

  • United Kingdom
    26 Feb 2026

    A new era? The Employment Rights Act 2025 and AI in employment disputes

  • United Kingdom
    03 Mar 2026

    IP Insights webinar series 2026

  • United Kingdom
    19 Mar 2026

    CMS Nordic Health Summit

  • 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
    21 Apr 2026

    On the Pulse webinar series 2026 - Spring

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We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.

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