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Financial services disputes
Helping clients navigate complex, contentious matters
Disputes in the financial services sector can be complex, with high volumes of transactions, intense regulatory oversight and an international reach. Efficiently resolving disputes is critical to the ongoing profitability and success of individual financial institutions.
Overview
The Financial Services industry handles large, complex, structured transactions and as a consequence can be subject to contentious issues around valuation, modelling and the commercial and economic rationale for the transactions. In an industry continually influenced by complex economic and technological factors, this can often lead to dispute. There are typically numerous transactions of high value and complexity, often subject to factors which are unique to the industry sector and require specialist industry experience and expertise to understand and interpret.
Deloitte’s financial services disputes team combines specialists in banking and capital markets and forensic technology with expertise in litigation support. We conduct detailed financial investigations, assess business losses and consider quantum and valuation issues in the financial services sector, both in formal dispute proceedings and in relation to alternative dispute resolution models, such as arbitration and mediation. We act as expert witnesses in financial services related disputes, as well as working behind the scenes to assist clients with potentially contentious matters.
How we can help
Our integrated team has a wealth of experience in translating complex information and analysis into understandable and concise language for use in a wide variety of contentious matters. Our involvement in financial services disputes has ranged from assisting clients in assessing the commercial and financial merits of any potential claim, through to providing full dispute advisory services and expert evidence.
We combine familiarity with complex financial instruments with experience of litigation protocols. Underpinning our capability is our Forensic Technology team with experience of making sense of the systems and data available, applying advanced data analytic techniques to present the information in a format that can be analysed by our dispute teams and in Court.
Our blog
Given the pace of change in financial services and the nature of disputes that arise, we regularly blog on current topics in the sector. Included below are a couple of our most recent blogs.
Banking provisions – another year, another story?
Since 2010 Europe’s banks have had to put aside increasing amounts to settle financial services disputes and fines imposed by financial regulators… Read more
EU benchmark regulation: Are you ready for implementation?
Due to be introduced on 1 January 2018, the European Commission’s Regulation on indices used as financial benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts forms part of the EU’s response to a series of high profile investigations, in recent years, into the alleged manipulation of key financial benchmarks, including LIBOR… Read more
Key contacts
One of the distinctive features of Deloitte’s FS disputes team is that it combines industry and subject matter experts from our banking and capital markets group, with specialists in forensic technology and professionals with a detailed understanding of dispute resolution from our Forensic group. It is the seamless provision of industry expertise, managing data and disputes know-how that allows us to support clients through some of their most challenging times.