Name
Jan Putnis
Job Title
Head of Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of Financial Institutions Group
Company
Slaughter and May
Speaker Bio
Jan Putnis is head of the Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Slaughter and May.
His practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with an emphasis on new business models and related regulatory advice, group restructurings and multi-jurisdictional transactions. He also advises extensively on regulatory capital and operational resilience issues. The adoption of new and emerging technologies, including generative AI, in the financial services sector is a pervasive feature of his work.
Jan advises banks, insurance and reinsurance groups, asset managers, other investment firms, market infrastructure operators and a broad range of fintech businesses. He has advised extensively on UK, EU, and international regulatory proposals and developments, and the strategic implications of these for clients’ businesses. As well as supporting clients on corporate and business restructurings, he provides ongoing strategic advice on their longer-term business operations.
Jan is recognised as a band 1 practitioner in the 'Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory' section of Chambers UK, 2024 and is in the ‘Hall of Fame’ in the same section of Legal 500 2024. He is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010) and has also published widely on banking regulation, Brexit, resolution planning, company law and investment management.
His practice focuses on matters of strategic importance to financial institutions, with an emphasis on new business models and related regulatory advice, group restructurings and multi-jurisdictional transactions. He also advises extensively on regulatory capital and operational resilience issues. The adoption of new and emerging technologies, including generative AI, in the financial services sector is a pervasive feature of his work.
Jan advises banks, insurance and reinsurance groups, asset managers, other investment firms, market infrastructure operators and a broad range of fintech businesses. He has advised extensively on UK, EU, and international regulatory proposals and developments, and the strategic implications of these for clients’ businesses. As well as supporting clients on corporate and business restructurings, he provides ongoing strategic advice on their longer-term business operations.
Jan is recognised as a band 1 practitioner in the 'Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory' section of Chambers UK, 2024 and is in the ‘Hall of Fame’ in the same section of Legal 500 2024. He is the contributing editor of The Banking Regulation Review (Law Business Research, since 2010) and has also published widely on banking regulation, Brexit, resolution planning, company law and investment management.