Slaughter and May

Jan Putnis

Partner; Jan is Head of our Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of our Financial Institutions Group. Jan’s practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with particular emphasis on regulatory advice (both contentious and non-contentious) and multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial transactions. He acts for a broad range of financial institutions, including banks, investment banks, brokers, insurance and reinsurance groups, market infrastructure operators, asset managers and fintech businesses. Jan has been at the forefront of the industry’s thought leadership on the impact of Brexit, which includes working with several industry bodies, such as UK Finance and TheCityUK. He is recognised as a leading individual in the 'Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory' section of Chambers UK, and is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010). He is a regular contributor to PLC Magazine and a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee.

Nick Bonsall

Partner; Nick is a partner in our Financial Regulation Group and a member of our Financial Institutions Group. He has a broad financial institutions practice, with extensive experience advising insurers, banks and asset managers on a range of stand-alone advisory and transactional projects. Nick also supports financial services clients on supervisory and contentious regulatory matters concerning UK and overseas regulators. He is regularly called upon to advise on complex prudential regulatory matters, and has a keen interest in and understanding of the EU / UK regulatory regimes for solvency/own funds and governance, and also on transactions designed to create capital efficiency or otherwise be accretive to solvency / capital ratios. Nick frequently advises on financial institution reorganisations and portfolio acquisitions/disposals, including by way of the UK Part VII process. As part of this work, he advised one of the largest UK retail banks throughout its preparation for and implementation of measures to comply with the UK retail banking ring-fencing regime. Nick is a member of Slaughter and May’s Brexit Committee and sits on the Financial Markets Law Committee’s scoping group for insurance. He is the co-author of the UK chapter of The Banking Regulation Review and the author of the EU chapter of The Asset Management Review (both published by Law Business Research).