Clifford Chance LLP

Managing Partner: Charles Adams

Senior Partner: Adrian Cartwright

Number of partners: 254

Number of fee-earners: 1155

Firm Overview:

Clifford Chance is a global law firm committed to creating advantage for its clients. The firm combines legal and commercial intelligence to grow, transform, protect and defend its clients’ business. Operating as a single, fully-integrated global partnership Clifford Chance provides forward-thinking insights and tech-enabled solutions in the sectors and markets that matter most to its clients. The firm’s culture of collaboration and commitment to rigorous and ethical standards, ensures consistent, high-quality service worldwide.

Clifford Chance's cross border fintech practice is uniquely placed to help deliver your most exciting and complex projects. Our established experience in the sector and footprint across five continents will help you to navigate rapidly-evolving legal challenges.

We advise disrupters across the fintech ecosystem including crypto custodians and exchanges, payments, web3, digital banks, insurtechs, peer-to-peer platforms, token issuers, consumer lending, robo-advisory, as well as established financial institutions and corporates, governments, regulators, trade bodies, industry-wide consortia and emerging players.

We have in-depth experience advising financial institutions and asset managers on areas such as fintech investments and M&A, digital bonds and securities, product development (including blockchain and DLT platforms utilising smart contracts, payments initiatives, web3 projects), commercial contracts and partnerships.

We are committed to helping you to achieve your goals by providing commercially-focused legal advice of the highest quality that consistently exceeds expectations. Our unrivalled international experience enables us to deliver seamless cross-border and specialist advice on the most innovative and complex tech-driven projects and financing,

What can we do for you? Whether you are a disrupter or an established institution we are best placed to advise you on corporate matters including VC, M&A and investments, funds, corporate structuring, financial services regulation, capital markets, derivatives, employment, IP, litigation, investigations and enforcement, risk management crisis planning and response, tax, data protection and cybersecurity, outsourcing, commercial agreements and operational resilience.

We are deeply immersed in the work of trade and industry bodies that are influencing the shape of the fintech market globally, often working closely alongside our clients including leading financial institutions, asset managers and corporates. This work puts us at the forefront of major changes taking place and uniquely positions us to advise on development of fintech policy. Clifford Chance's dedicated tech public policy team works seamlessly alongside our global transactional teams. In addition to our unmatched relationships with industry bodies, we have an influential role advising and discussing with governments, international bodies, regulators and other policy makers on many fintech-related topics.

International offices:

Abu Dhabi: Tel: +971 2 419 2500

Amsterdam: Tel: +31 20 711 9000

Barcelona: Tel: +34 93344 2200

Beijing: Tel: +86 10 6505 9018

Brussels: Tel: +32 2 533 5911

Bucharest*: Tel: +40 21 666 6100

Casablanca: Tel: +212 5201 3 2080

Delhi: Tel: +91 (0) 124 401 7300

Dubai: Tel: +971 4 362 0444

Düsseldorf: Tel: +49 211 43 550

Frankfurt: Tel: +49 69 71 9901

Hong Kong: Tel: +852 2825 8888

Houston: Tel: +1 713 821 2800

Istanbul: Tel: +90 212 339 0001

London: Tel: +44 20 7006 1000

Luxembourg: Tel: +352 48 50 501

Madrid: Tel: +34 91 590 7500

Milan: Tel: +39 02 806 341

Munich: Tel: +49 8921 6320

Newcastle: Tel: +442070061000

New York: Tel: +1212 878 8000

Paris: Tel: +33 1 44 05 52 52

Perth: Tel: +61 8 9262 5555

Prague**: Tel: +420222555222

Riyadh***: Tel: +966 1 478 0220

Rome: Tel: +39 06 422 911

São Paulo: Tel: +55 11 3049 3188

Shanghai: Tel: +86 21 6335 0086

Singapore: Tel: +65 6410 2200

Sydney: Tel: +61 2 8922 8000

Tokyo: Tel: +81 3 5561 6600

Warsaw: Tel: +48 22 627 1177

Washington DC: Tel: +1202 912 5000

*Clifford Chance has entered into an association agreement with Clifford Chance Badea SPRL in Bucharest.

**Clifford Chance has entered into an association agreement with Clifford Chance Prague Association S.R.O. in Prague.

***AS&H Clifford Chance, a joint ventureentered intoby Clifford Chance LLP