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Our Finance Disputes team at CMS consists of litigation and international arbitration specialists within our 20-Partner market leading Financial Services & Regulatory team operating out of offices in London, Bristol and Scotland.

The team prides itself on being responsive, focused on achieving solutions for clients in an effective and efficient way, supported by the latest technology.

Finance Dispute lawyers with varied financial services experience 

Being part of the wider Financial Services & Regulatory team means our Finance Disputes lawyers are fully aligned with our non-contentious sector specialists and are involved with contentious matters from an early stage. Many of the team have spent time working in-house within the financial services sector.

The team acts for a diverse range of clients across the financial services sector including:

  • domestic and international banks (investment, retail, private and challenger),
  • hedge funds,
  • asset managers,
  • FinTech companies.

The team also regularly assists domestic and international corporates solve their finance-related disputes and also works with insolvency practitioners.  

Our Finance Disputes lawyers help clients to navigate complex and high value disputes regarding financial products (including structured products), cross-border disputes, civil fraud, professional negligence, insolvency related litigation and advise on seeking urgent interim relief (including freezing orders). The team also has a focus on FinTech Disputes and Risk Management. 

For further details please see: Tom Dane, Vanessa Whitman, Kushal Gandhi, Philip Woodfield. 

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CMS International Construction Study 2024
CMS, in partnership with YouGov, asked in-house lawyers about the biggest challenges of managing disputes in this environment - and how those challenges can be met. We asked them about project risks, ESG factors and the use of AI in managing their transactions. Download the report to see what is keeping in house lawyers in construction businesses up at night, and how they see their risk landscape changing over the next few years.
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Digital Assets
Does your business have or is it ready for digitalisation and digital assets? Digital assets are transforming the world of business. Not just technologies in the news, like AI and crypto currencies, but a whole world of technological advances, from digital twins and extended reality to smart contracts and token­isa­tion. For tech businesses and those already using such technology to develop and market new products, much of this is core activity and relatively well understood – although legal and regulatory uncertainties remain, and potential pitfalls still exist for the unwary. But other business leaders, often less familiar with the territory, have to manage an increasingly complex assortment of issues that never troubled their predecessors, ranging from protecting their brand in the metaverse to deciding whether they should tokenise their shares or accept payments in crypto currencies. This section of Bandwidth looks at issues around the development and regulation of a wide variety of digital assets, and discusses how businesses can embrace them to innovate and evolve.
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Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the publishers. For further information visit www. practicallaw. com. In this article, Rebecca Byczok and Reeve Boyd from CMS’ Finance Disputes...
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Banking Disputes Report 2022
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Banking Disputes webinar - Data driven analysis and trends
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