Our lawyers cover the whole spectrum of capital markets work including debt and equity transactions, structured debt, high yield and trusts. Alongside mainstream capital markets issuances in the major economies we work on benchmark and other innovative transactions including in new frontier markets. We advise major market participants including leading financial institutions, corporates, governments and supranational organisations across the world as well as first time issuers and other new players in the capital markets.

With over 120 partners and a further 400 lawyers dedicated to capital markets, as well as close links with our Finance, Corporate and Tax practices, we can quickly assemble cross-border teams who combine local and industry focus with international perspective to provide practical, integrated legal advice for all our clients' capital markets activities.

We understand the challenging regulatory landscape, demand to stay competitive and need to cut costs facing the capital markets today. We help clients optimize performance.

Our lawyers are also actively involved in developments that shape the market – we regularly work with industry bodies alongside regulators, government departments and supranational organisations – as well as providing Thought Leadership through our client briefings and published articles. Our market leading position is consistently confirmed by top-tier rankings in all of the major legal directories.

Our Trading helps clients run and transform their front, middle and back-office trading operations. We provide buy-side, sell-side and market infrastructure firms with a full-service offering, including systems integration and technology consulting services, to assist in delivering high performance trading and settlement capabilities across all asset classes. This includes strategy, architecture design, operating model work, process improvement, systems building and trading p