We have over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector, acting for major retail banks and finance houses. We support global insurers, UK based banks, motor finance and other financial institutions with a "cradle to grave" service. We are one of the national lead firms liaising regularly with FOS; FLA and FCA on industry critical matters. Combining our specialist Finance Disputes and Regulatory ("FDR") lawyers in Legal Advisory with DWF's Legal Operations division, we provide a truly holistic legal services solution.

Our focus is to understand the challenges your business faces. We provide a full service offering to our financial services clients, seeking to reduce administrative time, provide cost savings and effective results, producing detailed management information, whilst always ensuring regulatory compliance and appropriate risk management.

We are market leaders in FCA regulated motor vehicle recoveries work. Since 2019, we have been leading the motor finance industry's response to the commission mis-selling wave, acting for a number of the leading motor finance providers, as well as motor dealers and credit intermediaries.

We have a nationally renowned asset finance litigation team, acting for institutional banks, challenger banks, and private lenders on recoveries and litigation, with experience in dealing with aircraft, commercial equipment and machinery, motor vehicles, fleet finance and vehicle stocking. 

We have particular expertise in large scale project work; including financial product mis-selling claims; regulatory remediation projects; unfair relationship claims, derivatives, and operational loss claims.

Fraud prevention is a significant area of work across all of our client-base.  We regularly advise on fraud investigation, detection and recovery, whether traditional asset finance or banking (such as cheque, fronting and theft), more specialised payments frauds; or cyber-related claims derived from criminal activity.  

We are well known for acting for banking clients in relation to commercial and residential lending secured by property, the appointment of receivers, acting for those receivers, and dealing with related litigation initiated by banks and receivers, and also by borrowers and guarantors. We also deal with possession claims, mortgage fraud and related professional negligence and breach of trust claims against solicitors.

Our expertise extends to advising on non-contentious FCA regulatory work, providing specialist advice to lenders and in house counsel regarding regulatory requirements, remediation projects, and auditing of systems and processes in order to minimise future litigation and arising from alleged breaches of regulation.