Banking & Finance lawyers

Louise Leung

Partner

Hogan Lovells

Louise Neave

Louise has extensive experience of advising in relation to UK and international financial services regulation and best practice. She joins Weightmans LLP from DLA Piper LLP where she was a Legal Director with responsibility for the firm’s consumer finance practice. Louise focusses on providing consumer finance legal and regulatory advice to a diverse range of clients including high street and challenger banks, finance houses, high street retailers, motor finance providers/manufacturers, point of sale lenders, store card providers, brokers and debt managers/collectors. She typically advises on the development of innovative credit/hire products; requirements for becoming and being FCA authorised and regulated to undertake various consumer credit related activities, including consideration of exemptions; how to compliantly enter and operate credit/hire agreements; drafting of credit/hire agreements; due diligence and funding arrangements involving portfolios of regulated credit/hire agreements; brokerage agreements; affinity agreements; financial promotions and advertising clearance; regulatory changes; FOS complaints; and FCA investigations. Louise has also held various in-house legal advisory and management roles in the UK financial services sector, including at RBS Insurance, where she headed a legal team servicing the legal needs of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Insurance Division businesses (including Direct Line Insurance plc, Churchill Insurance Limited, NIG, Privilege Insurance) and a senior policy role in a leading market financial services regulator in the Middle East, where she was responsible for developing the regulatory framework for Banks, Insurers and Asset Managers and for promoting international cooperation.

Weightmans LLP

Louise Power

Partner

Walker Morris LLP

Louise Snipe

Louise is a senior associate in the Corporate Restructuring and Advisory team in the Shoosmiths' Birmingham office. Louise advises on all aspects of insolvency and restructuring and her clients include insolvency practitioners, banks, companies and creditors. Louise's experience includes advising on company voluntary arrangements, acting both buyer and seller side in business sales out of administration and advising banks in connection with their security documentation. Louise has advised on a number of retail CVAs including Mucho Mas Ltd T/A Chilango, Elvetham Limited T/A Abokado, Thomas Sabo UK Limited and Polpo Limited. Louise has also assisted with a number of high profile administrations including Oddbins, and ASA Resource Group PLC. In addition to non-contentious work, Louise also advises on contentious matters. Her most recent notable success includes successfully defending an appeal against an order for the repayment of sums held to be preference payments pursuant to Section 239 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

Shoosmiths LLP

Louise Verstraete

Senior Associate

Liedekerke

Lounia Czupper

Lounia Czupper specialises in banking, finance and debt capital markets transactions. Lounia advises both borrowers and lenders on all types of finance transactions, including syndicated loans, leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance and restructurings. Lounia also advises issuers and managers on debt capital markets transactions, including Eurobond issues, EMTN and CP programmes and various types of structured debt transactions. As part of her regulatory practice, Lounia advises credit institutions, investment funds and various other entities on regulatory matters and product development.

Clifford Chance

Lourdes Amaral Fernández

Lechuga Abogados

Lourenço Noronha Andrade

Associate | Banking, Private Equity, Corporate and M&A

CCSL Advogados

Lourenço Vilhena De Freitas

Partner

Cuatrecasas

Lourey Smith

Consultant

McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes

Lovro Kovačić

Partner

Gugic, Kovacic & Krivic law firm

Lowri Gwyn

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Luc Defferrard

Partner

Walder Wyss Ltd.

Luc Golsteijn

In the legal profession, every day is different. No problem is the same, no one client the same as another. For Luc, that dynamic is what makes his job so great. He likes the complexity of cases with a diversity of interests. He also likes fairness and respect, because that’s how you work together for the long term. Decisive and clear: this is how he operates, looking for solutions that, like the challenges, never exist in isolation. Luc is a member of the Real Estate sector team and specialises in rental law. In his dynamic practice, he acts for various housing associations, healthcare institutions, educational institutions, public authorities, investors and businesses. Luc advises and litigates in the areas of rental law (residential and commercial property), loans, building and ground leases, as well as the purchase and sale of real estate. At Boels Zanders, Luc is involved in matters relating to housing associations, healthcare, education and retail and hospitality, among others. He is also a member of the Dutch Association of Rental Law Practitioners (VHA). In addition to his day job, Luc is a member of the Limburg Bar Association and a board member of two foundations.

Boels Zanders Advocaten

Luc Thévenoz

Luc Thévenoz is professor at the University of Geneva and the dean of the Faculty of Law. Before his appointment as dean, he was the director of its Centre for Banking and Financial Law. He is Of Counsel in our Banking and Finance Group. His areas of expertise include contracts and trusts. He is often asked to provide a second opinion or specialized advice in litigation disputes and has served in many international arbitration panels as arbitrator or chair. Experience: Provided legal opinion and support to the Swiss government resulting in the adoption of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and their Recognition Co-drafted the Federal Intermediated Securities Act Represented Switzerland in the drafting, negotiation and adoption of the Unidroit Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities Arbitrator or chair in various international commercial arbitrations Currently provides expert advice to the Swiss government for the preparation of a Swiss law on trusts

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Luca Autuori

Partner

Legance - Avvocati Associati

Luca Benvenuto

Luca Benvenuto is Partner at Alma and coordinates the Banking & Financial Regulation Team at Rome office. Luca assists on a wide range of activities related to banking law, investment services and financial activities, with specific focus on payment services and e-money issues in relation to the identification and fulfillment of regulatory aspects (including banking transparency and anti-money laundering), and on the authorization procedures before the supervisory authorities. Luca has a significant experience in the structuring, realization and negotiation of: insure-tech projects; outsourcing agreements in compliance with EBA regulation; joint-venture and partnership agreements between both financial intermediaries and among financial intermediaries and fintech companies; SPA agreements for the acquisition of qualified and not-qualified stake in fintech companies. Luca has a deep knowledge in the sale and purchase of portfolios and complex transactions involving banking and financial entities.

ALMA SOCIETA' TRA AVVOCATI S.R.L.

Luca Bernadinetti

Chairman & Managing Partner, Mahanakorn Partners Group (MPG)

Mahanakorn Partners Group Co

Luca Bianchi

lic. iur., Attorney at Law, Partner About Luca Bianchi advises clients in the areas of capital markets, banking, finance & fintech, regulatory and corporate/M&A. His practice focuses on capital market transactions and the regulation of financial services, financial institutions and financial market infrastructures. He specializes in complex issues (e.g. equity and debt capital markets, securitization transactions), financial products (e.g. structured products, ETPs, AMCs, CLNs) and collective investment schemes (e.g. ETFs and investment foundations). He also assists financial institutions in obtaining FINMA approvals. Luca regularly advises Swiss and international clients (especially listed companies) on the handling of key strategic issues. He also focuses on digital banks and fintech companies as well as innovative digital products. In addition, he advises regulated financial institutions on AMLA matters, internal investigations and related proceedings. Luca is recommended by Chambers, Legal500, Who’s Who Legal, IFLR1000 and other legal directories.

Kellerhals Carrard

Luca Bonetti

Luca advises Italian and international clients on finance and real estate transactions with a particular focus on the structuring and negotiation of corporate acquisitions through bank borrowing or other alternative funding, structuring and negotiating real estate transactions, loans and facilities for companies and groups of companies; and creditor protection instruments.

Chiomenti

Luca Cuomo

Partner, Head of Corporate, M&A and private equity

DWF

Luca Fabbrini

Partner

CBA Studio Legale e Tributario

Luca Faustini

Luca mainly deals with the assistance in connection with financing and debt-restructuring transactions. He has gained a significant experience in the litigation practice and in the consulting activity with respect to securities, mainly derivatives, by advising leading financial institutions.

Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici

Luca Ferrari

Luca provides assistance on complex disputes both in court and in arbitration, in the areas of banking and finance law -where he acts for financial institutions, particularly in disputes (including mass litigation and class actions) relating to loan structures, structured finance, involving allegations of mis-selling, misconduct, misrepresentation, deceit, fraud, breach of duty, contractual interpretation, breach of transactional documentation as well as on matters of enforcement, restitution and insolvency- as well as in the areas of insurance, commercial, corporate, tort, real estate and succession law. He has authored numerous publications in his areas of expertise.

Chiomenti