Name
Jan Putnis
Job Title
Head of Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of Financial Institutions Group
Company
Slaughter and May
Speaker Bio
Jan Putnis is head of the Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Slaughter and May.
His practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with emphasis on regulatory advice, group restructurings and multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial transactions. He also advises on regulatory capital, structural reform, operational resilience issues and the legal and practical consequences of recovery and resolution planning.
He acts for a broad range of clients, including banks, insurance and reinsurance groups, asset managers, brokers, market infrastructure operators and fintech businesses.
Jan has advised extensively on UK, EU, and international regulatory proposals and developments, and the strategic implications of these for clients’ businesses. Since the UK’s departure from the EU, as well as supporting clients on corporate and business restructurings, he has been providing ongoing strategic advice in relation to their longer-term business operations and strategic objectives, and on the significant regulatory reform that is taking place in the UK to ensure it remains a key global financial centre.
One of the increasingly active parts of Jan’s work is providing support to financial institutions, particularly in the banking sector, on the significant, increasing and often overlapping, regulatory obligations in relation to sustainability and ESG factors, and helping them navigate and keep pace with the development and changing nature of those obligations. He is also advising clients on the increasing regulation of emerging technologies, such as distributed ledger technologies, AI and de-fi, with a particular focus on the developing regulation around cryptoassets.
Jan is recognised as a band 1 notable practitioner in the 'Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory' sections of Chambers UK, 2023 and is in the ‘Hall of Fame’ in the same section of Legal 500 2023. He is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010) and has also published widely on Brexit, resolution planning, company law and investment management.
His practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with emphasis on regulatory advice, group restructurings and multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial transactions. He also advises on regulatory capital, structural reform, operational resilience issues and the legal and practical consequences of recovery and resolution planning.
He acts for a broad range of clients, including banks, insurance and reinsurance groups, asset managers, brokers, market infrastructure operators and fintech businesses.
Jan has advised extensively on UK, EU, and international regulatory proposals and developments, and the strategic implications of these for clients’ businesses. Since the UK’s departure from the EU, as well as supporting clients on corporate and business restructurings, he has been providing ongoing strategic advice in relation to their longer-term business operations and strategic objectives, and on the significant regulatory reform that is taking place in the UK to ensure it remains a key global financial centre.
One of the increasingly active parts of Jan’s work is providing support to financial institutions, particularly in the banking sector, on the significant, increasing and often overlapping, regulatory obligations in relation to sustainability and ESG factors, and helping them navigate and keep pace with the development and changing nature of those obligations. He is also advising clients on the increasing regulation of emerging technologies, such as distributed ledger technologies, AI and de-fi, with a particular focus on the developing regulation around cryptoassets.
Jan is recognised as a band 1 notable practitioner in the 'Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory' sections of Chambers UK, 2023 and is in the ‘Hall of Fame’ in the same section of Legal 500 2023. He is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010) and has also published widely on Brexit, resolution planning, company law and investment management.