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Albert Weatherill
Albert Weatherill is a financial services lawyer based in London. He focuses on financial services regulation, FinTech and is a global lead of our payments practice. Albert has a broad range of experience advising banks, investment managers, retail and institutional brokers, financial sponsors, market makers and high frequency traders, technology companies, exchanges, payment services providers and electronic money institutions in relation to domestic and cross-border financial services matters. Albert's diverse practice involves advising clients on regulatory compliance, regulatory change, governance, risk management, market abuse, trading, clearing and settlement, lending, conduct, prudential regulation, client money and custody. In particular, Albert focuses on the design, development, commercialization and regulation of innovative financial services and products, particularly across mobile and digital payments, digital assets issuance and trading, cryptoassets market infrastructure, banking as a service, consumer and corporate lending, decentralized finance, blockchain and distributed ledger technology. In addition to his broad advisory practice, Albert has extensive experience acting on mergers and acquisitions, private and public capital markets transactions, and restructurings involving financial institutions. He has represented clients on a range of complex and multijurisdictional transactions, including Advent International, Bain Capital, Charles Stanley, General Atlantic, Pay.UK, Barclays, IG, HSBC, KKR, Carne, Starling Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, The Northern Trust Corporation, Saxo Bank and Virtu Financial. Prior to qualification, Albert was seconded to the trade association of the UK payments industry, gaining experience working closely with the UK's payment schemes, banks and payment infrastructure providers. View profile: Albert Weatherill | Partner | Global law firm | Norton Rose Fulbright
James Lockwood
James Lockwood
James Lockwood is a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer based in London. He focuses on banking and finance, civil fraud and commercial litigation. He also has extensive experience of contentious regulatory and bribery and corruption investigations. James regularly acts for banks, corporates, funds and asset managers, helping them navigate a wide range of complex, cross-border and contentious matters. He has significant experience defending high-value group action litigations.   James is a Solicitor-Advocate with higher rights of audience in the courts of England and Wales (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings). Before joining Norton Rose Fulbright, James spent nine years at a magic circle firm. He has completed secondments to the in-house litigation and investigation teams of two major international banks.