Virtual

Financial Services Disputes – New Challenges and Opportunities

24 Apr 2025

Location: 12:00 - 1:00pm UK Time (Zoom)
Members: - Book by 24 Apr
Non Members: - Book by 24 Apr

Financial Services Disputes – New Challenges and Opportunities

Highlights

The expert advisory board for the Financial Services Disputes forum will be covering topics from across all types of financial service firms, identifying opportunities and trends that are likely to include:

Understanding the Future of Collective Actions in Financial Services Disputes

  • Philipp V. Barclays: a retrospective
  • The current state of motor finance claims
  • Where future liabilities for financial institutions may lie


Addressing the Growing Cybersecurity Litigation Field

  • Understanding the severity of Data Breaches
  • Shoring up gaps in cyber-compliance insurance
  • Identifying weaknesses in supply chains

 

Discussing the Impact of Non-Financial Misconduct Concerns

  • Expected inclusions in upcoming regulatory guidelines
  • Establishing the threshold conducts of individuals
  • Enforcement principles of new FCA administration
Join our In-Person Forum...

Jill Lorimer
Partner
Kingsley Napley

Jill is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Financial Services Group and has an extensive track record in advising firms and individuals facing regulatory and criminal investigations by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Having had the benefit of a 12 month secondment at the Criminal Prosecutions Team at the FCA, Jill has particular insight into the organisation’s approach to the investigation and prosecution of serious financial offences.


Jill Lorimer
Jill Lorimer Partner
Kingsley Napley
Darren Kidd
Partner
Clarke Willmott

 

Partner at Clarke Willmott specialising in high-value and complex commercial disputes. I have experience across a broad range of domestic and international matters, including in the areas of banking / financial services, fraud, insolvency, professional negligence and tax.


Darren Kidd
Darren Kidd Partner
Clarke Willmott
Anthea Bowater
Counsel
Freshfields

Anthea is counsel in our dispute resolution practice and a member of the financial institutions disputes group. 

She advises on a wide range of complex commercial and financial disputes, and on contentious regulatory matters.  Her clients include leading financial institutions and multinationals. 

She has expertise in sustainable finance, including in relation to ESG-related regulation and disputes, and has recently spent time on secondment in the Litigation and Regulatory team at Goldman Sachs. 

 


Anthea Bowater
Anthea Bowater Counsel
Freshfields
Nell Perks
Partner
Latham Watkins

Nell Perks represents leading financial institutions in a wide range of disputes and contentious regulatory investigations, frequently with an international element.

Nell helps financial services clients navigate complex regulatory and criminal investigations, including in some of the most significant US and UK investigations in recent years, involving the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), US Department of Justice (DOJ), and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as regulators in other jurisdictions.


Nell Perks
Nell Perks Partner
Latham Watkins

Agenda

11:55am
Audience log on
12:00pm
Chairs Opening Remarks
12:05pm
Financial Services Disputes – New Challenges and Opportunities
Speakers:
Jill Lorimer - Partner - Kingsley Napley
Darren Kidd - Partner - Clarke Willmott
Anthea Bowater - Counsel - Freshfields
Nell Perks - Partner - Latham Watkins
12:45pm
Panel Q&A
1:00pm
Chairs Closing Remarks