"Cadwalader is a cutting-edge law firm that is on top of the most current legal issues."
 - Chambers USA

Cadwalader organized our Financial Services Department to match our practice expertise to the needs of our clients. The group integrates broad regulatory expertise, including enforcement, with the derivatives and fund formation transactional practices to which that expertise is critical. The partners and counsel in the group have substantial national reputations, including many who have held prominent positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, stock exchanges and other agencies, and many who are active academically, regularly teaching, writing and speaking on regulatory issues.

Cadwalader attorneys are increasingly being called upon by businesses who need help navigating current and future regulatory challenges stemming from the global financial crisis. To assist our clients in understanding the issues that will affect their industries, entities and transactions, we have assembled memoranda and other materials digesting and analyzing the impact of regulations and requirements of both the The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and a wide variety of European Union Regulatory Reforms targeting investment business and market structures (MiFID II); alternative investment fund managers (AIFMD, the scope of which includes hedge funds, private equity and others operating outside the UCITS); central clearing and exchange-trading of derivatives (EMIR and MiFID II); market abuse and insider dealing (MAD II); capital regimes (CRD IV); and commodity derivatives traders (REMIT, MAD II and MiFID II). Please visit these pages for further insight on these complex and often time-sensitive changes.