Helping ensure that you comply with rules and regulations to run your business efficiently

• Support for regulated organisations with all types of legal and regulatory obligations to assist make sure your company is completely compliant.
• Understanding how businesses function in-depthly helps that regulations are implemented in a way that benefits your company, your stakeholders, and your regulator.

If you are a regulated business, you will have a set of rules that you need to comply with. However, regulators are increasingly not issuing prescriptive rules, but instead preferring guidelines that can be used across a range of circumstances. The problem with guidance is that there will inevitably be a level of interpretation. As experts in regulatory law, we can help interpret and define what is both compliant and best practice.

Financial regulators

We can provide you with specific advice on the relevant rule books and best practises if you are one of the 56,000 financial services firms regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), one of the 18,000 firms for which the FCA serves as the prudential regulator, or one of the 1,500 firms under the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).

Trustees

Tens of thousands of groups in the UK depend on trustees for support, from pension funds to charities. Trustees offer governance for these organisations. Many of these organisations are also subject to regulation, and trustees frequently need assistance with regard to their regulatory obligations.

We support both organisations and their trustees.

Assisting you to concentrate on managing your organisation effectively

In many cases, breaking your regulator’s requirements can result in harsh penalties, such as being barred from running a business and/or being punished. We can make sure you follow the laws and regulations so you can concentrate on managing your business effectively.

Practical and expert knowledge of regulatory regimes

We look after the legal needs of many regulated organisations and have practical knowledge of how businesses are run as well as the issues they may face. We can bring this knowledge into action when looking at your regulatory regime and decide how to practically implement it to ensure compliance in a way that serves your business, your stakeholders and your regulator.

Our experienced team are based across our offices in Richmond, London, Southampton, Lymington, Guildford and Woking.

How we work with you

Important laws affect both households and businesses across the UK. Whether or not our clients are close to our offices, technology has made it possible for us to offer a high level of service to them. We can offer our advice in a number of ways:

• Over the telephone
• Via video conferencing
• In face to face meetings

We’ll talk about how you’d like to be contacted and the best ways to get to us in our initial conversation with you.