England - London • Risk advisory
Addleshaw Goddard
‘Professional, calm, pleasant and diplomatic’, the governance and compliance team at Addleshaw Goddard is fully embedded in its corporate practice and is particularly active in the financial services sector. Key areas of focus include ESG, audit reporting, AGMs, market abuse, remuneration and board issues and the team acts for FTSE 100 and FTSE 250-listed companies, and high-profile banks. Jaya Gupta is a key practitioner with over 28 years’ experience in corporate law and advises on regulatory issues relating to transactions, while Ben Koehne advises on constitutional, corporate governance, strategic and regulatory matters. Managing associate Richard Preston focuses on governance and compliance, and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and stock exchange-related regulatory matters; James Greig joined from an in-house role at Barclays in October 2022 and brings strong financial services regulatory expertise to the team.
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Testimonials
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- 'Approachable, knowledgeable and accessible.'
- 'Addleshaw Goddard have provided us with an exceptional service as a law firm on a number of large, complex projects which have involved providing high-quality expert advice in a number of areas and required industry knowledge and a commercial approach.'
- 'The lawyers we have dealt with are of a very high calibre, and they are very capable and resourced in all key areas.'
- 'They are very good at providing added value with regard to specialist training and knowledge webinars.'
- 'The lawyers in the firm we have dealt with have been excellent.'
- 'They collaborated well as a team and also liaised professionally with a number of other key stakeholders.'
- 'I always find them professional, calm, pleasant and diplomatic, and they make themselves available to meet tight deadlines.'
- 'Ben Koehne and Richard Preston are key individuals - they know our particular idiosyncrasies and advise accordingly.'
Key clients
- Entain
- International Personal Finance
- Morgan Advanced Materials
- Rathbones Group
- Reclaim Fund
- Rio Tinto
Work highlights
- Advised 10 of the UK's largest high street banking providers on the creation and launch of Cash Access UK Limited, a new joint venture designed to enable consumers and small businesses to access cash, deposit and basic banking services where they are needed across the UK, including via shared "banking hubs".
- Advised a leading stock exchange on various confidential governance-related matters during the year.
- Supported a broad range of main market listed companies, AIM quoted companies and building societies with their year-end reporting and AGMs.
Lawyers
Rising stars
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jaya Gupta, Ben Koehne, Nichola Peters, Jonathan Fletcher Rogers, Erin Shoesmith, Michelle Headrige