Banking and Finance
Fountain Court is well known for its expertise in the field of banking and finance and we have long and consistently been regarded as the premier banking set. Members of Chambers at all levels have extensive experience in all aspects of banking and finance (including Financial Services Regulation), both contentious and non-contentious, international and domestic. That includes:
- Retail banking such as in relation to mandate disputes, cheques, bills of exchange and other forms of payment mechanism, all forms of security (including guarantees and mortgages), documentary credits, performance bonds, consumer credit and e-banking.
- Investment banking (including in relation to investment and fund management, mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance, private equity, syndicated and other lending, interest rate swaps, IPOs, securitisation, project finance, foreign exchange trading, export credits, collateralised debt obligations, derivatives and commodity trading)
- Central banking
- Banking supervision and regulation, including Ombudsman schemes.
- Asset preservation and tracing, including freezing injunctions and search orders.
- Corporate and insolvency aspects of banking.
Members have been involved in virtually all of the leading banking and finance cases of recent years, such as the OFT bank charges litigation (in which ten members appeared, for a number of the parties), the Box Clever securitisation litigation, Three Rivers DC v Bank of England, Customs & Excise v Barclays Bank, Jackson v Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland v Etridge, and the key swaps cases including Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln CC, Westdeutsche v Islington LBC and Hazell v Hammersmith & Fulham LBC.
A number of Members co-author Law of Bank of Payments (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004), one of the leading texts in the field.
Our Publications in this Practice Area
- Law of Bank Payments
- The Proposed Directive on Distance Marketing of Financial Services
- The Payment Services Directive
- The Application of Consumer Credit Act 1974 to Credit Card Transactions over the Internet