Sectors
Financial services
Banks, asset managers, insurers, lenders and payments firms are judged on trust, and their regulators read their press statements as carefully as their returns.
We advise banks and private banks, asset managers, insurers, specialist and equipment lenders, payments companies and financial technology businesses, mostly on the occasions they would rather not have: investigations and enforcement, data exposures and outages, disputes with customers or investors, leadership changes and governance disputes.
Financial services clients face two audiences at once: customers who want to know whether their money is safe, and regulators and investors who want to know whether the firm understands what went wrong. We help clients write for both without saying different things to each.
What clients bring us
- Investigations and enforcement
- Data exposures, outages and service interruptions
- Disputes with customers, borrowers and investors
- Leadership changes and governance disputes
- Authorisation and licensing
- Activist shareholders
Case studies
- 2025An equipment lender after a service interruptionConcluded
- 2023A private bank after a data exposureConcluded
Who to talk to
- Laura Whitcombe Partner, New York laura.whitcombe@haldenrook.com
- Catherine Dunmore Partner, London catherine.dunmore@haldenrook.com