We have a dedicated team to advise on legal issues facing businesses operating in the FinTech sector.
Technology-driven improvements to financial products and services, or “FinTech”, has an inescapable relationship with law and regulation. Various game-changing technologies including IoT connectivity and interfacing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, smart data discovery and interrogation, 5G and Blockchain (which supports digital assets and smart contracts) are being harnessed by start-ups, scale-ups, technology businesses and financial institutions to improve efficiency, connectivity and user experience in financial services. These technologies are equally applicable in other sectors such as supply chain management, manufacturing, retail and leisure.
Because these technologies are so wide-ranging and fast-evolving, early engagement with legal advisors who are embedded in the sector is important. Lawmakers and regulators are increasingly engaged with innovative technologies and, as the law adapts, you need lawyers who are focused on doing the same.
The North West has thriving financial services, technology and professional services ecosystems, fostering a vibrant FinTech sector. We are active in all three ecosystems with a technology sector focused on FinTech and associated technologies.
We work with clients, professional and government organisations involved in FinTech. Because of our Technology Funding offering, we are ideally placed to advise on relevant corporate, commercial and regulatory issues, while our cross-sector approach gives us insight into how emerging technologies can be deployed in other sectors. This proves very helpful to clients who are developing innovative technology-driven products and services.
We provide pragmatic advice to a broad range of technology clients, their management teams and their investors on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters. Our technology sector group is focus on FinTech as well as the legal implications for those developing products and services leveraging game-changing technologies. We also have a deep understanding of how technology businesses can protect their intellectual property whilst facilitating the necessary collaboration to gain market traction and scale.
Our clients include FinTechs, HealthTechs, RegTechs as well as those using technology to disrupt housing, recruitment, manufacturing, supply chain management and travel and aviation.
