England - London • Corporate and commercial
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
The ‘collaborative’ team at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP stands out for its transatlantic payments offering, with additional experience advising on the financial services regulatory aspects of IPOs, asset purchases and sale purchases. Following the retirement of Jacqui Hatfield, Dan Jones, who joined from Baker Botts (UK) LLP in September 2022, leads the team and focuses on large-scale payments and fintech projects. Managing associate Rebecca James is another key contact in the team.
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Testimonials
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‘The Orrick team works to know our business and to think creatively to offer advice that furthers our business goals. It is a collaborative relationship that is aligned with the business's mission.’
'They have a detailed practical knowledge and anticipate well in advance the opinion to be taken by regulators on the products and services and what kind of questions can be expected.'
'Guy Stevenson provided a pragmatic approach and coherent yet eloquent solution for our specific request.'
Key clients
- Adiona Technologies Limited
- BlueSnap Inc
- CashDash
- Demonstrable Labs
- Floww (Fomtech Limited0
- Glorious Digital Limited (client since February 2022)
- Griffin Financial Technology Limited
- Jacobi Asset Management Limited
- Koia Global Limited (client since 2021)
- Ledgercomm Ltd.
- Lunu
- MFS Africa
- Nayms
- Onto
- Payler
- Plim
- PNC Bank
- Pollen
- PurpleDot
- Rally Ventures Management, LLC
- Splyt
- Terra Payments Services (TerraPay)
- TheBuildingBlocks
- True Potential
- Wirex
- Ziglu
Work highlights
- Acting for Wirex on both payments and crypto regulations, such as advising on the application of UK payments law to its innovative new payment and lending products involving crypto assets.
- Advised Ziglu as lead regulatory counsel on the application UK payment regulations on its business structure, capital requirements, and financial crime controls.
- Advising Griffin on regulatory issues connected with establishing a UK bank.
Lawyers
Rising stars
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Dan Jones