Financial Services Disputes - The Third Annual Conference 2025
In-person | 24th June 2025 | One Whitehall Place
The 3rd annual event bringing practitioners across all areas of the Financial Services sector together to explore emerging trends and opportunities in 2025.
Agenda
Registration
9.00am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
9.30am
Jill Lorimer, Partner
Kingsley Napley
Darren Kidd, Partner
Clarke Willmott
Anthea Bowater, Counsel
Freshfields
Nell Perks, Partner
Latham Watkins
Keynote Address: Regulatory Attitudes to Financial Service Disputes
9:40am
Understanding the Future of Collective Actions in Financial Services Disputes
10:20am
- Philipp V. Barclays: a retrospective
- The current state of motor finance claims
- Where future liabilities for financial institutions may lie
Belinda Hollway, Partner
Scott+Scott
Danielle Carr, Partner, Dispute Resolution
Rosenblatt (UK)
Darren Kidd, Partner
Clarke Willmott
Michael Brown, Partner
Penningtons Manches Cooper
Networking & Refreshment Break
11:00am
Reviewing Sanctions and AML Concerns for Financial Institutions
11:20am
- Reviewing cases that have made it to court
- Exploring questions about de-banking and reporting standards
- Learning from Russia-Ukraine precedent for upcoming sanctions
Sue Millar, Partner
Stephenson Harwood
Matthias Gstoehl, Partner
Schellenberg Wittmer
John Binns, Partner
BCL Solicitors LLP
Addressing the Growing Cybersecurity Litigation Field
12:00pm
- Understanding the severity of Data Breaches
- Shoring up gaps in cyber-compliance insurance
- Identifying weaknesses in supply chains
Ellie Ludlam, Partner
Pinsent Masons
Charlie Weston-Simons, Partner
A&O Shearman
Rhiannon Webster, Partner
Ashurst
Networking & Lunch Break
12:40pm
Surveying the Changing Financial Services Tax Landscape
1:40pm
- Contentious issues in tax policy for Asset Management
- Tax uncertainty post-covid adjustments to methods of working
- New tax authority data interrogation tools and tax transparency measures.
Paul Noble, Partner
Blick Rothenberg
Jill Lorimer, Partner
Kingsley Napley
Discussing the Impact of Non-Financial Misconduct Concerns
2:20pm
- Expected inclusions in upcoming regulatory guidelines
- Establishing the threshold conducts of individuals
- Enforcement principles of new FCA administration
Laura Bridgewater, Partner
Macfarlanes
Eve Ellis, Partner
Ropes & Gray
Tracey Dovaston, Partner
Pallas Partners LLP
Jane Gow, Global Head of Employee Relations
Deutsche Bank
Networking & Refreshment Break
3:00pm
Exploring The New Critical Third-Party Regime
3:20pm
- HMT’s purview to designate financial institutions as critical
- Changes in liability and requirements for CTPs
- How this designation affects cross-border entities
Nell Perks, Partner
Latham Watkins
Anthea Bowater, Counsel
Freshfields
Funding Financial Services Litigation Post-PACCAR
4:00pm
- How PACCAR did (and did not) affect the funding landscape
- Prospects for funding collective actions
- Understanding settlement and claims administration for financial services disputes
Richard Viegas, Partner
Taylor Wessing
Helen Fairhead, Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright
Evaluating the Scope of Future ESG Liability for Financial Services
4:40pm
- New avenues for ESG liability: Disclosure, Conduct, Strategic, and Contract Litigation
- Future standards for reporting requirements
- The upcoming 2027 EU Corporate Sustainability Directive
Anna Brownrigg, Partner
Enyo Law
Andrew Sulston, Senior Legal Advisor
Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute
Chairperson’s Closing Remark
5:20pm
End of Day
5:30pm
Jill Lorimer - Partner - Kingsley Napley
Darren Kidd - Partner - Clarke Willmott
Anthea Bowater - Counsel - Freshfields
Nell Perks - Partner - Latham Watkins
- Philipp V. Barclays: a retrospective
- The current state of motor finance claims
- Where future liabilities for financial institutions may lie
Danielle Carr - Partner, Dispute Resolution - Rosenblatt (UK)
Darren Kidd - Partner - Clarke Willmott
Michael Brown - Partner - Penningtons Manches Cooper
- Reviewing cases that have made it to court
- Exploring questions about de-banking and reporting standards
- Learning from Russia-Ukraine precedent for upcoming sanctions
Matthias Gstoehl - Partner - Schellenberg Wittmer
John Binns - Partner - BCL Solicitors LLP
- Understanding the severity of Data Breaches
- Shoring up gaps in cyber-compliance insurance
- Identifying weaknesses in supply chains
Charlie Weston-Simons - Partner - A&O Shearman
Rhiannon Webster - Partner - Ashurst
- Contentious issues in tax policy for Asset Management
- Tax uncertainty post-covid adjustments to methods of working
- New tax authority data interrogation tools and tax transparency measures.
Jill Lorimer - Partner - Kingsley Napley
- Expected inclusions in upcoming regulatory guidelines
- Establishing the threshold conducts of individuals
- Enforcement principles of new FCA administration
Eve Ellis - Partner - Ropes & Gray
Tracey Dovaston - Partner - Pallas Partners LLP
Jane Gow - Global Head of Employee Relations - Deutsche Bank
- HMT’s purview to designate financial institutions as critical
- Changes in liability and requirements for CTPs
- How this designation affects cross-border entities
Anthea Bowater - Counsel - Freshfields
- How PACCAR did (and did not) affect the funding landscape
- Prospects for funding collective actions
- Understanding settlement and claims administration for financial services disputes
Helen Fairhead - Partner - Norton Rose Fulbright
- New avenues for ESG liability: Disclosure, Conduct, Strategic, and Contract Litigation
- Future standards for reporting requirements
- The upcoming 2027 EU Corporate Sustainability Directive
Andrew Sulston - Senior Legal Advisor - Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute
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