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FinTech Legal: Payments & Lending - UK-wide
What the Team is Known For
The FinTech group at Dentons consists of experts with digital banking, e-money and payments experience. The team combines its financial regulatory and TMT expertise, advising clients on often innovative projects concerning credit, buy now, pay later products and crypto-assets.
Strengths
Dentons offers pragmatic solutions when regulatory guidance is ambiguous, and provides advice that balances compliance with business pragmatism.
The team is specialised in each of the legal and technical aspects of the project. From regulatory aspects of payment gateways to public procurement and contract negotiation, it is great.
Dentons stands out for its deep FinTech expertise and first-rate transactional execution. Its team brings deep understanding of both regulatory and commercial nuances underpinning FinTech.
Work Highlights
Dentons advised FinTech platform Algbra Group on a strategic investment from SC Ventures, and the acquisition by Algbra from SC Ventures of sustainable finance platform, Shoal.
Notable practitioners
Andrew Barber is a payments regulatory specialist and a member of Dentons' FinTech team.
He asked the right questions, got to the facts very quickly, and understood how to apply them to the area of law. He is clearly a very capable lawyer and takes time to understand the background.
Andrew Barber provided strategic oversight throughout the engagement. His deep understanding of EMI regulations, combined with a pragmatic approach, gave us confidence
Andrew Barber is an excellent professional with great understanding of our company's business and the technical aspects of the project.