Regulatory & Compliance

Herrington Carmichael is a full service law firm offering legal advice to UK and international businesses as well as individuals and families.
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Regulatory & Compliance

Meet your Regulatory & Compliance team

Dedicated professionals ready to assist you.

Michelle-Lamberth-PNG
Michelle Lamberth
Senior Paralegal, Corporate
Christine Tretzmueller-Szauer PNG
Christine Tretzmueller-Szauer
Legal Director, Corporate
Mark Chapman PNG
Mark Chapman
General Counsel, Head of Commercial & Regulatory

Regulatory & Compliance Services

Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance refers to the way a business is managed, controlled and how decisions are made. Its purpose it to facilitate effective, entrepreneurial and prudent management to deliver long term success of the company.

Having an effective Corporate Governance strategy in place ensures that responsibilities are clearly defined, and decisions-makers well informed to take proper decisions, that a company’s objectives and how it intends to achieve them are transparent and that all stakeholder’s interests are borne in mind. Such clear structures preserve and enhance the value of the business and its attractiveness to investors.

Missing Corporate Governance on the other hand can be – or often has been – the root cause for corporate failure and endangers the trust in the organisation both in the inside and on the outside.

Corporate-Law-Services

Financial

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  • Term loan facilitates
  • Revolving credit facilitates
  • Invoice financia facilitates
  • Bridging loans
  • Acquisition financia
  • Project financia
  • Asset backed lending

Legal Opinions

Our specialist team provides high quality, English law legal opinions for UK and international businesses, in house legal teams, commercial leaders, financial institutions and overseas law firms. Whether you require a formal opinion for a transaction, a clear view on risk, or commercially grounded guidance to support strategic decision making, we deliver fast, reliable and actionable advice.

NSIA

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  • Term loan facilitates
  • Revolving credit facilitates
  • Invoice financia facilitates
  • Bridging loans
  • Acquisition financia
  • Project financia
  • Asset backed lending

Training & Workshops

A single legal training session can help your staff to identify and deal with risk and issues and know when to seek further guidance. We offer training onsite or we would be pleased to host you at our offices. Alternatively, we can provide training remotely using video conferencing facilities, enabling live Q&A sessions.

We can provide training sessions which are designed to meet the needs of your business and address new or recurring issues which your business might face. We are experienced in providing training to staff across all departments, including in-house legal counsel and sales teams, to ensure that they stay ahead of current commercial law and / or regulatory law trends which might affect them in their roles within the business.

What types of training do we provide?

  • Legal knowledge training
  • Key commercial clauses training
  • Terms in commercial agreements
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Regulated Training Sesssions
Commercial Lawyers

All Regulatory & Compliance Services

We have specialist Financial Services Lawyers across a variety of our Corporate, Commercial, Regulatory & Compliance, Employment, Immigration and Dispute teams.

Client wins

**SRA Application for New Solicitors Firm** Advice on SRA application for new firm of solicitors structured as an ABS, preparation of application forms and supporting documents.

**Cross Border Regulatory Project for UK Telecoms business** Cross border project for a UK telecom solutions provider expanding into multiple jurisdictions, to include preparing regulatory questionnaires, coordinating local counsel to assess applicable laws and licensing requirements, and managing responses and proposals across jurisdictions.

**Pension Scheme Rules Variation** Drafted and advised on deed of variation to pension scheme rules in connection with scheme transfer and advice on publication requirements.

**NSIA ANALYSIS** Undertook a detailed analysis and provided advice on the National Security and Investment Act 2021 in relation to our client’s artificial intelligence software. Advised on the transaction notification forms and supporting documents, and provided responses to the Government department, helping to ensure that the transaction was cleared.

Over the period Oct. to Dec.’25, Herrington-Carmichael supported us with regard to the closure of an employer-managed pension scheme. Mark Chapman and Brendon Lesar provided excellent guidance and documentation to ensure that the overall project was correctly completed in the required time-frame. I would not hesitate to recommend Herrington-Carmichael as a partner to provide support with any legal matters. **Richard Holman, Director** **TDK UK Limited**

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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to your most pressing questions about our services and processes.

The answer is very fact specific and will depend what your business will be doing. In order to confirm whether or not FCA authorisation is required, a regulated activities analysis should be performed. This involves mapping the activities of the business against the relevant regulated activities and available exemptions. The complexity of the regulated activities analysis will vary depending on the nature of the activities to be carried out by the business. Alternatives to FCA authorisation are potentially available – for example becoming an appointed representative – please see below for more details.

If your business will be undertaking regulated activities, it will need to be authorised or exempt for those activities. Becoming an appointed representative of a business that is already FCA authorised is one potential alternative to your business becoming FCA authorised itself. Whether or not the appointed representative route is appropriate would depend on the surrounding circumstances and also the goals of the relevant business – there are pros and cons to becoming an appointed representative for example speed vs cost.

Not only is funding a hurdle for new and existing businesses, the provision of care is also a highly regulated sector (and for good reason). Not only would you be assisting the elderly but potentially the very vulnerable, providing care into their last hours (depending on what type of care facility you intend to provide). It is no secret therefore that the care home and healthcare sectors are heavily regulated with not only having to comply with the stringent requirements under the Care Quality Commission (CQC), but also needing an in-depth understanding of current health and safety regulations, commercial property matters which may affect the running of the business, environmental issues and employment law issues to name a few. The CQC is an independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, ensuring that the services provided to people are safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality. They have the ability to monitor, inspect and regulate the services provided and regularly publish their findings on their website. They also have powers to take action against care home providers who provide poor care services, facilities and/or are unsafe which assists in regulating the industry across the board. The CQC is an independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. For more information, please visit their website.

The FCA has wide-ranging powers to implement a number of different sanctions ranging from providing guidance, publicising enforcement action, imposing fines, to bringing criminal proceedings against directors personally. The exact sanction applied would depend on the nature of the breach and the surrounding circumstances.