England - London • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Osborne Clarke LLP
Described as a firm that ‘genuinely understand how to work with early stage businesses’, Osborne Clarke LLP assists clients ranging from small innovators to multinational corporations on a range of regulatory and transactional mandates. The broad-based fintech practice, which has seen an increase in instructions in relation to buy-now-pay-later matters, is additionally well equipped to handle cryptoassets disputes and tech procurement mandates. Regulated lending specialist Nikki Worden - who co-heads the fintech practice - is praised for her ability to 'balance technical know-how with an understanding of how things need to get done.’ Fellow co-chair Mark Wesker advises on takeovers, IPOs and fundraising deals, while international payments practice head Paul Anning is particularly active in the US payments market. Rachel Couter excels in financial services regulatory investigations, while Tom Try specialises in corporate transactions. Receivables financing expert James Tarleton, regulatory specialist Paul Harris and the ‘highly responsive’ Ben Player are also recommended.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘ Osborne Clarke delivers advice in a timely manner and are always willing to accommodate and meet the demands of the most demanding and fast paced companies.’
- 'Paul Anning understands payments and insurance regulation and is able to solve complex legal issues of entities facing different types of financial regulation.’
- 'Paul Harris is one of the best lawyers in payment services.'
- 'Ben Player is a superstar! Ben produces top quality work and gives expert advice.'
‘OC are one of the very very rare professional services firms who seem to genuinely understand how to work with early stage businesses.'
‘Nikki Worden has incredibly deep technical knowledge but has done enough time in industry to balance the technical know how with and understanding of how things need to get done in industry.'
‘Nikki Worden is outstanding. She has a brilliant reputation so to attach her name to a position we've been advised on carries weight.'
- 'Mark Wesker is the most approachable corporate lawyer.'
Key clients
- Squareup Europe Limited (part of Block, Inc)
- Microsoft Corporation
- Funding Circle Limited
- Revolut Limited
- Super Payments Limited
- Fintern Limited
- Wirecard Card Solutions Limited
- Airbnb Payments UK Limited, Airbnb Ireland
- Clearbank Limited
- WEX Europe Services/WEX Fleet France SAS
- Liberis Limited
- gohenry Limited
- Trustly Group AB
- J.P. Morgan
- Totallymoney.com
- CashPlus Bank
- Salary Finance Ltd
- Prodigy Finance Ltd
- BC Home Loans Ltd
- SquareTrade Limited
- UK Finance
- Loqbox Limited
Work highlights
- Advised Squareup Europe (part of Block, Inc.) on strategic matters in the UK and across Europe.
- Advised Liberis on its recent financing and its international strategy refresh, as well as providing an international advice platform via OC Solutions.
- Advised Fintern on its latest fundraising led by Hambro Perks and also on the debt and equity investment in its consumer arm Abound.
Lawyers
Rising stars
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Mark Wesker, Nikki Worden