We are a specialist law firm based in London

Working in the financial services sector, we bring technical expertise, considerable experience and deep market knowledge to support our clients with high quality, cost-efficient and timely advice.

Our Firm

Chancery Advisors is a four-partner legal practice, making it one of the most senior teams in the global swaps and short-term credit legal markets.

We primarily act for hedge funds, investment managers and large family offices at the top-end of the market, as well as acting for banks and other financial intermediaries.

Our aim is to be responsive, pro-active and cost effective. We are a partner-led practice which ensures senior attention to meet our clients’ particular needs and requirements. We are equipped to handle time-sensitive issues, including failed trades, squeezes, buy-ins, credit events and extraordinary events specific to our respective clients or the market generally.

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Services

We support our clients with:

Advisory and transactional services on all aspects of trading and portfolio financing, including OTC derivatives and transactions in the short-term credit markets. We regularly provide clients with actionable advice on “live” trading issues.
An ESG practice group which is fully integrated into our core trading and financing team and which advises market participants on pre- and post-trade issues and policy matters. We have a leading role in industry working groups on ESG matters.

A General Counsel practice, where we act as a direct resource for COOs, CFOs, CEOs, PMs and in-house GCs.
Managed Account services, where we provide “hub services” to managed account platforms.

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Our Team

Our partners have represented both the buy and sell sides of the market and, having worked in private practice and in-house, have a deep understanding of what clients want and expect from their legal advisors.