The key services offered by the Lovells' financial institutions group are as follows:
- retail banking and consumer finance, covering advice for the entire retail banking and consumer finance sector (especially the credit card and mortgage industry), including advice on projects, e-commerce, data protection, contractual joint ventures (e.g. co-branding deals) and buying and selling debt
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investment funds, consisting of advice on all aspects of investment funds and pooled investment from initial structuring of a vehicle to the legal, regulatory and tax aspects of establishing and operating a fund
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mergers and acquisitions, including domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, joint ventures and transfers of insurance and banking business under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA")
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other transactional projects such as reinsurance, outsourcing, product distribution, re-attributions of inherited estate and solvent and unitisation schemes of arrangement under section 425 of the Companies Act 1985
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finance, including insurance securitisation, insurance finance/alternative risk transfer and rights issues and other specialist finance such as subordinated debt and contingent loans
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regulatory, covering advice for the entire financial services sector and including advice on solvency/capital adequacy, the regulation of insurance intermediaries, with-profits funds and financial conglomerates. The Group also advises clients on all aspects of their relationship with the FSA including ARROW visits and 'Skilled Person Reports'.