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Travers Smith is a leading full-service law firm, based in London. The firm regularly conducts cutting edge and industry-first work for clients and has carved a market-leading reputation across the payments sector. Travers Smith provides cutting edge advice and offers counselling to clients in relation to the fast-moving and dynamic payments landscape. It’s not just law at Travers Smith. Your business is our business. Independent and bound only by your ambitions, we are wherever you need us to be. Our clients know that we treat their business as our business, their dispute as our dispute, their challenges as ours. They know that wherever in the world they or their ambitions lie, we will work as one of their team to get things done. And they know that we do so in a straight-talking, thoughtful and open way.

Reed Smith is a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward. With an inclusive culture and innovative mindset, we deliver smarter, more creative legal services that drive better outcomes for our clients. Our deep industry knowledge, long-standing relationships and collaborative structure make us the go-to partner for complex disputes, transactions and regulatory matters. 

Our team of 3,000 people (including more than 1,600 lawyers) operate across more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia to drive progress for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities.

The strong relationships we build with leading international businesses – from Fortune 100 corporations to emerging enterprises – help us develop a deep understanding of their ambitions and desired outcomes. Through teams that are culturally aware and work collaboratively across geographies, we provide legal advice tailored to our clients’ needs. 

Based in the heart of the City of London, and supported by our global network, our London office strategically supports clients worldwide with the innovative advice they need to grow and manage their businesses. We get straight to the heart of the matter to understand what our clients are trying to achieve and what we need to do to help them achieve it.

Sidley boasts a roster of 2,300 lawyers who wield deep experience in litigation, transactional and regulatory matters spanning over 50 legal disciplines and industries. With 21 offices situated in major commercial and financial capitals around the world, our lawyers possess the cultural awareness and legal acumen needed to advise clients in today’s global economy. 

Sidley has a preeminent payments and fintech practice, advising financial institutions, payment networks, technology companies, processors, high-growth fintechs, and other market participants navigating a fast-changing and increasingly complex regulatory environment. We offer clients a meaningful competitive advantage through strategic regulatory guidance, sophisticated transactional support, and deep sector knowledge across global financial centres. 

We advise on the full spectrum of regulatory and compliance matters, including authorisation and licensing, open banking, financial crime compliance, consumer protection frameworks, conduct requirements, regulatory capital, governance, outsourcing, prudential and conduct reporting, competition and trade issues, data privacy, and cybersecurity. 

We regularly assist clients in structuring, launching, and operating innovative payment products and platforms - from commercial and consumer card programmes to virtual payment instruments, digital wallets, mobile payments, and peer-to-peer services. Our broader fintech capability further strengthens our payments work. With leading expertise in digital currencies, tokens, cryptoassets, distributed ledger applications, instant and faster-payments infrastructure, digital interfaces, and the expanding use of artificial intelligence in financial services, we help clients navigate the increasingly convergent technologies shaping the future of the payments sector. 

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