Shoosmiths LLP

Chief Executive: David Jackson

Chairperson: Kirsten Hewson

Number of UK partners: 210

Number of other staff: 1,600+

Helping FinTechs and payment innovators launch, grow, and stay compliant - through strategic legal advice that unlocks opportunity and manages risk

Shoosmiths supports clients across the FinTech and digital payments landscape. From emerging start-ups to global platforms and large institutions and corporates helping them navigate regulation, secure authorisation, transact effectively and maintain commercial resilience.

Our team understands the pace and complexity of launching financial products in regulated markets or in integrating them into existing businesses. We advise on everything from cross-border compliance and product structuring to acquiring permissions, negotiating strategic partnerships, and dealing with disputes and investigations.

With deep sector experience, including time spent in-house at leading FinTechs, we offer practical, commercially focused advice tailored to your business model. Whether you're scaling a new product, entering new markets, adopting new processes, or refining or augmenting your customer journey, we help you move forward with confidence.

Head of Shoosmiths FinTech - Commercial and technology partner: Luke Stubbs

Head of Payments - Fintech and Digital Asset legal specialist partner: Thomas Brown

Shoosmiths is a law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters. Read more here: Shoosmiths | For What Matters

From Mercedes-Benz, Marston's and Travelodge to Octopus Ventures, major property developers and some of the UK's largest banks, we work with a growing number of the FTSE 250 and some of the world's most exciting and ambitious growth businesses.

From offices across the UK and Brussels, the firm supports some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact.

The firm also believes in supporting the communities in which it operates, and it is firmly on its ESG journey, with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validating near-term science-based emissions reduction targets, and launching grant-making body Shoosmiths Foundation | Shoosmiths Lawyers. To find out more about Shoosmiths and the positive impact the firm is making across its clients, people, and ESG and innovations, please visit: Impact report 2025

It's thanks to our clients that we have been recognised in award programmes for innovation and client service excellence. Every service innovation we have delivered in recent years has come about through listening to clients and working with them to find a better way of working, so they and we can work smarter, faster and better. Read more here: The Shoosmiths client experience | Shoosmiths Lawyers

Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses.

Shoosmiths has a proven track record of navigating complex legal landscapes, advising clients on what matters to them across multiple jurisdictions. Our long-standing working relationships with law firms across the world – coupled with membership of the World Services Group (WSG) and active participation with the International Bar Association (IBA) – enables us to offer clients best-in-class advice, regardless of where they are in the world. Read more here: International | Shoosmiths Lawyers

Business desks

Our international business desks for the USA, Germany and India are staffed by lawyers with deep experience of advising clients in and from these key economic and geographic markets. They bring legal support and a network to help clients make valuable connections, together with the cultural understanding (and languages) required to support clients from those markets or who wish to enter those markets. Read more here Business desks

Shoosmiths’ innovative approach is also embodied in their non-legal comprehensive business solutions for clients. For us, legal advice is just one piece of the puzzle when it comes to tackling complex business challenges. Read more here: Shoosmiths EIGHT | Connected services