Our new Banking Law Update online conference is taking place on 29 March as a 3 hour live online event. Topics to be covered range widely from high value property transactions from a banks perspective to the creditor duty and BTI v Sequana: Implications for Financial Institutions. (See full list below)

The conference will be streamed live, direct to your desktop, tablet or smart phone so you can watch it from your office or home wherever in the world you are. You can participate in the conference live or watch the recorded version whenever you want. In each case you will receive a recording of the complete conference after the event.

The price for this is £240 + VAT. This is a per organisation price, so up to 20 of your colleagues can participate at no extra charge, even if they are viewing it from a different location or at a different time.

For law firms with four or less partners you can purchase a single place at the conference for £99 + VAT

We have held very many online conferences and have refined the concept into a highly effective and efficient training tool which is as far removed from the boring old one-hour/one speaker webinar as it is possible to be. Instead of one speaker, we have 8, who will each deliver a 25 minute session. By exposing our attendees to a wider variety of voices, they are in turn exposed to a wider range of ideas. Consequently, you can better get to grips with the subject, facilitate a greater understanding of the topic and keep your organisation abreast of fresh developments.

We have put together a great team of speakers to cover a wide range of hot topics:

Regulation of crypto-assets

When a settlement agreement falls into the trap of being a regulated credit agreement

High value property transactions from a banks point of view

Recent authorities on the Quincecare duty

Financial Collateral Regulations

Supreme Court case on secret commissions and limitation arguments

The Creditor Duty and BTI v Sequana: Implications for Financial Institutions

Contractual capacity – the banking issue that never goes away

Speakers:

Saima Hanif KC, 3 Verulam Buildings 

James Macdonald KC, 3 Verulam Buildings

Kate Urell, Gough Square Chambers

Lisa Lacob, 3 Verulam Buildings

Charlotte Eborall, Gough Square Chambers

Joseph Sullivan, Quadrant Chambers

Richard Mendoza, Herbert Smith Freehills

Speakers' Details

Saima Hanif KC, 3 Verulam Building

Saima’s practice spans banking and financial services, commercial litigation, insurance and commercial judicial review. She is currently representing a defendant in the $2 billion Commercial Court SKAT ‘dividend arbitrage’ litigation, a foreign state seeking to intervene with an application before the UK Listing Authority and the main defendant in the high profile FCA Qualia Care Homes civil proceedings. She is also instructed by regulators, having acted several times for the PRA, and as retained counsel for the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.

Saima has extensive experience in banking and finance disputes, acting for corporations and individuals across areas including retail, business and investment banking. She has cross-border experience and has acted in Dubai, Hong Kong and represents the regulator in Guernsey.


James Macdonald KC, 3 Verulam Buildings

James is a leading commercial barrister who took silk this year. Described in the directories as a “phenomenal”, “supremely talented” and “incredibly intelligent” advocate, who is “wonderful to work with”, “charming with clients” and “very responsive and practical”, James’ “superb reputation and first-class abilities” see him regularly instructed in many of the most high-profile and valuable commercial disputes.

James’ practice encompasses all major areas of commercial law. As well as significant experience of major general commercial litigation, James also has particular experience of matters involving fraud, banking and finance, private equity/venture capital, energy, technology, professional negligence, shareholder disputes and restructuring/insolvency, as well as advising on private law issues relevant to substantial tax matters. He is also highly experienced in jurisdiction matters, and has particular experience of enforcement-related matters including Norwich Pharmacal applications, committal applications and related matters. As well as substantial litigation experience, James has extensive arbitration experience (under LCIA, ICC and ICSID rules) and is currently acting in a number of substantial arbitrations.

James has been nominated four times by C&P for banking or commercial junior of the year and was selected by both Legal Week and The Times as a “future star of the bar”.

Charlotte Eborall, 3 Verulam Buildings

Charlotte specialises in banking and financial litigation and disputes and is regularly instructed by major banks and financial institutions, as well as other clients with a banking dispute. Charlotte’s practice spans disputes arising out of financial instruments (e.g. derivatives and related products), credit, mortgages, guarantees and other securities, allegations of fraud, undue influence, negligent advice, and equitable and restitutionary claims. Her strengths are described (in Chambers & Partners) as follows: “She is exceptionally hard-working, provides thorough advice and is a delight to work with.” “Charlotte is a top-drawer senior junior. She is meticulous, thorough and relentless in her approach. She is strong with both the written and spoken word and demonstrates empathy in her dealings with the lay client. She is very approachable and a fine team player. She regularly outperforms silks.”


Lisa Lacob, 3 Verulam Buildings

Lisa's areas of expertise include Banking & Financial Services, Civil Fraud, Commercial Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, Professional Negligence, Company Law and Insolvency. Many of Lisa’s cases are high value banking and financial services disputes. Lisa’s background working as a non-contentious banking solicitor in a leading global law firm and in the structured products team of a bank, means she has particular experience of syndicated lending, complex derivatives instruments, including interest rate hedging products and structured foreign exchange products, ISDA documentation and securitisations. Lisa has been consistently ranked by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading banking and finance junior for a number of years. 

Kare Urell, Gough Square Chambers

Kate is recognised as a leader in her field by both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500. She acts in a wide range of credit and non-credit related regulatory matters including contentious and non-contentious advisory work. In particular, Kate is experienced in financial services litigation and advisory work. She has successfully represented most major banks and financial institutions in Court in numerous financial services disputes, in particular defending enforceability and payment protection insurance mis-selling trials on their behalf. Kate is also experienced in unfair terms, harassment of debtors, credit referencing errors, limitation and matters pertaining to the FCA Handbook rules (including CONC, MCOB, DISP and COMP etc). She is equally experienced in s.75 and s.140A CCA disputes and peer-to-peer lending. Kate successfully acted for the lender in two of the recent important cases on the meaning of credit (see notable cases below). Kate is an editor of The Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law (dealing specifically with FSMA authorisation) and is co-author of Atkins Court Forms Consumer Protection Volume.

Richard Mendoza,  Herbert Smith Freehills

Richard is a senior commercial litigator at Herbert Smith Freehills, with considerable experience of advising financial services sector companies. He advises across a broad range of issues, and regularly in the context of cross-border and domestic insolvency or corporate distress scenarios. A specific focus of his practice involves advising boards and C-suite clients on directors' duties and director related actions, and company law matters more generally. He also specialises in professional negligence work, with particular experience in the field of accountancy and audit in this context.

Joseph Sullivan, Quadrant Chambers

Joe specialises in commercial law, banking and finance, commercial fraud and professional negligence. His practice encompasses the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and arbitrations across the gamut of institutional rules. He is described in the Legal 500 as “A fantastic barrister who gets to the heart of issues, and expresses advice in a clear, concise and digestible manner. A first rate advocate”. Joe is instructed across a broad spectrum of banking and finance work, both at an interlocutory stage and at trial. He has particular interest in and experience of claims involving agency, trusts, FSMA and restitutionary remedies. He has also developed a specialism in claims involving banks’ obligations to customers and the FCA in connection with money laundering and Part VII of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Important Notes about Booking

1. If you are booking more than say 14 delegates, it is probably better to make two bookings of half the number of delegates each, starting with the paying delegate and then adding half the free delegates to that booking and then creating a new booking for the rest of the free delegates. The reason for this is that the booking platform time-out kicks in perhaps too quickly and you can lose all the information you inputted. Alternatively you can book your first delegate and send the names, job titles and email addresses of the additional delegates to us at info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk

2. Payment can be made by credit or debit card or alternatively by invoice. The option to pay by invoice is below the pay by card option in the booking form

3. If you have more than 20 delegates then extra delegates are £20 each. Contact us at info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk to arrange this

4. If you don't have the complete list of who will be attending you can book for those that you know will be attending and add the others at a later date

5. If you would like to submit questions in advance to the speakers please send them to info@legaltrainingconsultancy.co.uk

6. Please ensure that, when booking, you get colleagues' email addresses entirely correct as failure to do so will probably mean that they will not receive joining instructions

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