Linklaters

Senior Partner: Aedamar Comiskey

Managing Partner: Paul Lewis

Global Fintech Co-Heads: Fionnughuala Griggs, Julian Cunningham-Day, Harry Eddis, Richard Hay

The firm: Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. The firm uses its expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportunities and manage risk across emerging and developed markets around the world. Linklaters has 30 offices covering all the major jurisdictions and financial centres around the world. Work is handled in all commercial languages and local languages of countries in which Linklaters has offices.

Fintech at Linklaters: Launched as a standalone sector within the firm in 2016, Linklaters' fintech offering is widely acknowledged for its market leadership and innovation. Its work with innovators and investors in fintech – from financial institutions, challenger banks, infrastructure providers and technology companies alike, gives them a deep understanding of the key issues that matter to the market, whether incumbents or disruptors. Linklaters have one of the largest fintech teams in the City and can tracetheir fintech roots to some of the earliest widespread implementations of DLT and blockchain technology.

Their multi-disciplinary approach to fintech matters spans the following key product areas:

• Fintech investment, funding and corporate structuring
• Technology services contracting
• Digital transformation of financial market infrastructure, digital assets, DLT deployments and DeFi
• Payments innovation: payments systems and payments services
• The broader regulatory matrix impacting fintech
• Investigations, enforcement and litigation