Sponsors: City Week 2026

For almost 200 years, the world’s leading corporates, banks, funds and financial sponsors have relied on Linklaters for market-leading legal advice.

Our talented and ambitious teams operate at the forefront of all major practice areas and sectors, providing innovative, commercial solutions to our clients’ most complex corporate, finance and contentious matters.

Teamwork fuels our success. We work as one global team across borders and practices to bring the whole firm to our clients, enabling them to confidently seize opportunities and navigate risk.

We equip our teams with the best AI-enabled tools to enhance the support we provide to clients. We also help clients to seize opportunities and stay ahead of emerging legal and regulatory challenges surrounding AI.

The international law firm that acts as your strategic business partner, offering opinion, not just option.

Renowned for our sector focus and pioneering use of AI, we partner with leading organisations to redefine the intersection of business and law. Our strength lies in building trusted, long-term relationships with clients, working alongside them to address complex challenges in highly regulated sectors such as asset management and investment funds; energy, natural resources, infrastructure and construction; financial institutions; healthcare and life sciences; and technology, media and telecommunications.

A firm where curiosity and collaboration spark transformative ideas, our teams of lawyers, sector specialists, technologists, and business service professionals are committed to delivering the highest quality service across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the US.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. With a 140-year history of success and client service, the firm is recognised as a model for modern legal practice. S&C is a leader across its core practice areas and geographic markets, advising on major domestic and cross-border M&A, finance, corporate transactions, high-stakes litigation, investigations, and complex regulatory, tax and estate planning matters. The Financial Services Group is at the forefront of developments affecting global financial institutions, including UK and international banking organisations, insurers, investment funds and asset managers. S&C comprises more than 900 lawyers across 13 highly integrated offices in key financial centres in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. Established in 1972, Sullivan & Cromwell’s London office is the second largest office of the firm. The London office advises on English, EU and U.S. law, serving as a natural focal point for English law advice, as well as for cross-border European and cross-continental transactions.

Euroclear is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post-trade services. Guided by its purpose, Euroclear innovates to bring safety, efficiency and connections to financial markets for sustainable economic growth.

Euroclear provides domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bonds, equities, derivatives and funds. As a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure, Euroclear is committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.

The Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank – which is rated AA by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s – as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden, Euroclear UK & International.

The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 1,390 trillion in securities transactions in 2025, representing 359 million domestic and cross-border transactions, and held EUR 43.6 trillion in assets for clients by end of 2025.

Addleshaw Goddard (AG) is a London headquartered, international, full-service law firm that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes for our clients globally.

We have been advising clients for 250 years, and today we support over 5000 of the world's most respected organisations. We help them in over 50 areas of business law, across more than 100 countries. And while the opportunities and challenges they bring us vary, we solve each in a uniquely AG way.

Our clients enjoy working with us, we deliver a high-quality experience across everything we do, and we are known for award-winning innovation - all of which we harness to bring impact for clients.

Baker McKenzie is a global law firm that empowers clients to compete confidently in the international marketplace. The firm delivers comprehensive, practical legal advice that cuts through complexity with clear, actionable guidance. With a team defined by cultural and jurisdictional diversity, Baker McKenzie combines deep local knowledge with international expertise to help businesses thrive across borders.

Global perspective is embedded in the firm’s DNA, shaping how its people think, collaborate, and solve problems. Embedded in key markets worldwide, its teams build trust, nurture relationships, and work closely with local regulators to provide clients with truly on-the-ground insight.

Baker McKenzie partners with clients for the long term, guided by the belief that success is built on shared commitment rather than transactions. This approach ensures clients receive timely, practical support to make the decisions that matter most.

With more than 6,500 locally qualified, globally experienced lawyers and tax advisors across over 40 countries, the firm brings the knowledge, resources, and cultural fluency needed to deliver consistent, high quality service. Its professionals represent more than 60 nationalities, are admitted in nearly 250 jurisdictions, educated at over 1,200 institutions, and collectively speak more than 70 languages.

Pay. Tokenise. Clear & Settle. By 2027, ClearToken Group’s horizontal, regulated, digital financial market infrastructure will create a neutral post-trade layer, supporting 24/7 markets and fractionalisation for traditional and digital assets in accordance with IOSCO principles.

Founded in 2022 and headquartered in London, ClearToken is majority market-owned, backed by leading institutions to bridge traditional finance with the digital asset economy.

Authorised today. ClearToken Depository Limited is an Authorised Payment Institution under the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (FRN 1017352) and registered with the FCA as a Cryptoasset firm under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (FRN 1016940). These permissions enable our FCA-authorised services:

CT Settle – Delivery-versus-Payment net settlement, live since December 2025 across cryptoassets, stablecoins and fiat.
CT Pay – Payment-versus-Payment settlement to eliminate Herstatt risk in cross-currency transactions (stablecoin equivalent of CLS).

Both will deploy on Canton Network alongside DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Euroclear, LSEG and Tradeweb.

In flight to 2027:

CT Register - Currently a Gate 1 entrant in the Bank of England's Digital Securities Sandbox, ClearToken CSD Limited is progressing its Gate 2 application to operate as a Digital Securities Depository (DSD), enabling regulated tokenisation and de-tokenisation of fiat, stablecoins, and securities. Ultimately it seeks international CSD (iCSD) authorisation, providing settlement with legal finality under English Law.
CT Clear – ClearToken CCP Limited is finalising its Bank of England submission for authorisation as a Central Counterparty and recognition as a Recognised Clearing House, facilitating multilateral netting, margining, and novation.

For more information, please visit www.cleartoken.io

Founded in 1946, Cleary Gottlieb has grown to over 1,200 lawyers from more than 50 countries, working across practices, industries, jurisdictions and continents to provide clients with clear, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. The firm operates across 14 offices worldwide and its lawyers speak 65 languages.

Cleary supports every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen and a human touch, with a proven track record for serving with innovation and consistent success across multiple jurisdictions. Global corporations, financial institutions, sovereign governments, local businesses and individuals rely on the firm for consistently practical and forward-looking advice.

The firm has served as counsel to over 50 sovereigns and has advised on over 1,200 completed M&A transactions worldwide since 2015, valued at over $2.6 trillion. Cleary's track record also includes advising on some of the most significant transactions and matters in legal history, including the largest ever sovereign debt restructuring, leveraged buyout, real estate transaction and patent portfolio sale, as well as the most prominent antitrust case of the decade. The firm has also represented over 50 financial institutions in financial crisis-related litigation.

The Midnight Foundation is an organisation dedicated to advancing the development, adoption, and real-world impact of the Midnight network, the privacy enhancing blockchain project developed by Shielded Technologies. Designed for confidential smart contracts, Midnight enables censorship-resistant yet compliant decentralised applications. It leverages zero-knowledge proofs and a cooperative tokenomics architecture – with NIGHT as the utility token and DUST as the shielded capacity resource – to deliver a powerful combination of privacy, security, and decentralization.

Quantexa is a global data, analytics, and AI software company pioneering Decision Intelligence to help organizations make confident decisions with contextual data. Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform transforms fragmented data into trusted, contextual intelligence that powers better decisions, operational agility, and AI-ready enterprises and public sector agencies. Our customers use Quantexa technology to protect, optimize, and grow by solving complex challenges across the entire organization through modern data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial and economic crime, risk, fraud, and security.

The company has been named as a Decision Intelligence category and innovation leader by all of the major industry analyst firms. Founded in 2016, Quantexa has over 800 employees and tens of thousands of users globally, working with billions of data points across the world. For more information, visit www.quantexa.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Robinhood U.K. Ltd (Robinhood UK) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN: 823590) and is a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., a US-based financial services company with a mission to democratise finance for all. Robinhood Markets, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Robinhood”) transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock trading and democratising access to the markets for millions of investors. Robinhood launched in the UK in 2023 with a low-cost, intuitive platform designed to lower barriers to investing and better support customers who felt underserved by the existing market offering. Today, Robinhood UK offers access to: more than 5,000 US-listed stocks and ADRs; a stocks & shares ISA; options trading; futures trading; margin investing; securities lending; trading of certain securities 24/5; a percentage back on uninvested USD cash; Robinhood Legend; and more all in one place with no account minimums or account fees. Additional information about Robinhood UK can be found at https://robinhood.com/gb/en/.

Slaughter and May is a leading international law firm with a diverse and extensive practice comprising the full range of commercial, financing, regulatory, and other areas. It is recognised throughout the business community for its innovation, expertise and commitment to its clients – helping them achieve their commercial objectives and deal with the most business-critical and challenging situations, however complex or new those challenges may be. Our Financial Institutions Group supports UK, EU and global financial institutions from across the full spectrum of the financial services sector on a wide range of corporate, financing and regulatory matters. We are well-known for supporting clients on some of the most complex, ground-breaking, and innovative matters, which provide the practice with real insight into the different objectives and challenges facing UK, EU and global financial services businesses, as well as a broad perspective across global financial services markets as a whole. Further information about Slaughter and May is available at https://www.slaughterandmay.com

Tokenovate is a UK fintech providing programmable post-trade infrastructure for capital markets. Its platform automates the lifecycle of derivatives and securities financing, transforming legal agreements and trade data into standardised, machine-readable workflows. Built on the Common Domain Model (CDM), Tokenovate ensures interoperability across institutions and systems while enabling deterministic processing and atomic settlement. Headquartered in Cambridge, the company works with FMI operators and banks to modernise market infrastructure and enable always-on, tokenised capital markets.

Travers Smith is a leading full-service law firm and harnesses over two centuries of legal excellence and expertise to deliver premium, bespoke advice that organisations can trust.

The firm regularly conducts industry-first work for clients and has carved a market-leading reputation across the payments and digital assets sectors.

In today’s fast-moving business and regulatory environment, organisations require a long-term partnership with legal advisers who understand their sector and share their ambitions. We combine deep technical expertise with sharp commercial insight to keep our clients one step ahead and provide cutting edge advice and counselling to our clients. As a proudly independent firm, we’re free to collaborate globally and build the right team for every challenge.

White & Case is a global law firm with long-established offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, cross-border integration and depth of local, US, and English-qualified lawyers help our clients operate with confidence in any one market or across many.

Our global team of specialized lawyers represents businesses across the AI tech stack including those investing in, developing or adopting:

Applications and other tech leveraging foundational AI technology
Foundational AI technology (including foundation models, such as large language models and large data sets)
Critical AI infrastructure powering such foundational AI technology and the applications and other technologies leveraging them

zerohash is the leading infrastructure provider for crypto, stablecoin, and tokenized assets. Its API and embeddable dev-kit enable innovators to easily launch solutions across cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, and on/off-ramps. The company has a global regulatory footprint across the EU, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, and the U.S., and operates regulated entities in 51 U.S. jurisdictions. For more information, visit www.zerohash.com.

Zoniqx is a Silicon Valley–based fintech founded in 2017, providing the infrastructure layer for institutional Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization. The platform enables governments, funds, and asset managers to issue, manage, and distribute tokenized assets across 20+ jurisdictions and 14+ blockchains — with compliance, identity, and liquidity built in by design. Powered by AI-driven tools for asset classification, risk scoring, and liquidity orchestration, Zoniqx has structured over $5.1B in tokenized assets with a $25B+ active pipeline, with 70+ strategic partners across capital markets including Ripple, Hedera, Cardano Midnight, and PwC.

Unlike point solutions, Zoniqx operates as a neutral OS — not a custodian, marketplace, or broker-dealer — allowing competing institutions to share the same infrastructure without conflict. Its core products (z360, zConnect, and the world’s first compliance-native tokenization standard zProtocol/ERC-7518) cover the full asset lifecycle from issuance to secondary distribution, with AI-driven compliance automation compressing what typically takes 12–18 months of buildout into just 2–4 weeks.

Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government Department responsible for Foreign Direct Investment. InvestHK’s vision is to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as the leading international business location in Asia. Our mission is to attract and retain foreign direct investment which is of strategic importance to the economic development of Hong Kong. In all our services, we apply the following core values: passion, integrity, professionalism, customer service, business friendliness, responsiveness, collaboration and innovation.

We work with overseas and Mainland entrepreneurs, SMEs and multinationals that wish to set up an office – or expand their existing business – in Hong Kong.

We offer free advice and services to support companies from the planning stage right through to the launch and expansion of their business.

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