Financial Institutions

The banking and finance industry is heavily regulated to protect consumers and to prevent crises that could potentially hurt the economy. Financial institutions face a wide range of strategic, operational and legal challenges.

Our team of financial institutions lawyers offer effective solutions to leading banks, trading houses, insurance companies and accountants, in critical areas including transactional work, banking litigation, restructuring and insolvency, securities law and regulatory and compliance.  We have built our industry knowledge over many years of experience in dealing with many types of financing transaction.

Deacons has had a strong financial institutions practice for many years. Our responsiveness flows from a culture of client service and innovation. Our experience and our dedication to the interests and needs of our clients makes sure that they are in safe hands amid the uncertainties of an ever-changing business environment.

Scope of Services

Our services include:

• Credit and security, including syndicated loans, cross-border loans, and project financing
• Financial products
• Debt capital markets, including bond issuance and asset securitisation
• Compliance matters, including establishment of compliance systems, antitrust and anti-money laundering
• Regulatory issues, and investigations
• IPOs and listings
• Mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged financing
• Debt financing
• Bank and money lender licensing, compliance and revocation
• Non-performing asset disposal, debt restructuring, and debt crisis management
• Intermediary business of financial institutions, including payment and settlement, custody, underwriting and financial derivatives
• Mergers and acquisitions loans and privatisation financing
• Consumer finance
• Real estate financing, including all types of mortgage and land-related secured lending
• Trade finance transactions
• Development of new and innovative products including online platforms
• Data protection and privacy
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Protection and commercialisation of IP rights
• Enforcement against infringing use of trade marks, trade names or domain names

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