FinTech

Our FinTech team has true breadth of experience and includes experts in IT, data, IP, finance, dispute resolution and cyber. Winners of ‘Best Advisory of the Year’ at the 2023 FinTech Awards Wales, our in-depth knowledge of the sector enables us to provide market leading advice to our clients, creating a commercial edge in a fast-moving market.

FinTech Lawyer in London

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Nicola McNeely

Working with entrepreneurial and innovative people in Wales and across the UK, especially in advanced manufacturing and technology businesses, is a pleasure, and I focus on working closely with clients to solve their problems and really understand how their businesses work. That understanding enables me to give succinct and pragmatic advice.

Strategic advice

Keeping your commercial objectives front of mind, our lawyers work with clients to provide the specialist advice needed by fintech businesses.

Solid contracts and agreements are the building blocks for a successful business. We advise on all manner of contracts from supply and purchase to data, IT and software agreements, making sure terms are fair and responsibilities are understood. Offering legal and regulatory expertise, we support fintech businesses across a range of areas including payments and e-money, IT and IP support, finance and taxation.

The sheer volume of data processed by businesses can be challenging and not without risk. Our data experts regularly put in place policies and procedures to help businesses to safeguard data in tandem with our cyber specialists advising on cyber security and data hosting.

If a dispute should occur, our litigation specialists are on hand to act quickly, assessing the situation, making sure you abide by any regulatory requirements and resolving the matter swiftly.

Cutting edge support

Funding for fintech businesses naturally includes traditional routes and investments but some organisations may opt for more alternative blockchain initial coin offerings (ICOs) such as security token offerings. Our wider team includes emerging technology experts who provide insights and guidance on areas such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, AI, utility tokens, smart contracts, web3 and robotics.

Our reputation in this fintech space attracts significant players in the market to us for advice. We advise a range of fintech businesses including crypto asset protection business, Coincover, leading payment services provider, AllPay, sa.global, a global Microsoft 365 partner and Finalrentals, a leading global online car hire business.

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We produce a quarterly newsletter, Tech Law, which covers the latest news and developments impacting the technology sector.

Each issue features articles from our specialist technology advisors covering a range of issues including cryptocurrencyintellectual propertycyber lawdisputes and international impacts.

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Hear what our clients say about us

Your expert guidance, whether through insightful advice during our monthly meetings, facilitating key introductions, or sharing your deep knowledge of data protection, has been instrumental in strengthening both our contractual practices and our compliance framework.

Client testimonial Technology & Innovation

Wayne is wonderful to work with. He is excellent with clients, assertive but not aggressive with opponents, commercially astute, has a good reputation with judges and has excellent tactical judgement.

Client testimonial Chambers 2026

Nicola is an exceptional lawyer with unsurpassed technical knowledge in a very specialist area. She is very approachable, a real advocate and champion for women and social diversity in the sector.

Client testimonial Chambers 2026

The very hardworking Nicola McNeely is an expert in a number of fields and effortlessly explains the most technical of subjects and associated legal points in a straightforward and meaningful way.

Client testimonial Legal 500 2026

Nicola McNeely is an outstanding legal professional with strong expertise in the crypto and blockchain space. Her advice is always clear, practical, and tailored to the fast-moving nature of the industry and our needs.

Client testimonial Legal 500 2026

They have a flexible approach, which works well in the SME market and they are well tuned to client requirements and culture. The technology team is a significant differentiation in the market, in particular in relation to NFTs and virtual currency.

Client testimonial Legal 500 2026

Martyn Davies – has a high degree of integrity, clarity of communication and an in depth understanding and appreciation of SME client requirements, concerns and needs. Martyn can be trusted to take commercial and pragmatic approaches.

Client testimonial Legal 500 2026

Very capable team, clear communication and were proportionate in their contact with us. Good judgement on whether we needed email or fact to face communication.

Client testimonial Legal 500 2026

The team members took time to really listen and understand our concerns and the nuanced situation, so the advice we received was not only helpful from a legal perspective but also recognised emotion and context.

Client testimonial Legal 500 2026

Another key practitioner is the vastly experienced data protection/cyber security expert Kerry Beynon.

The Legal 500 2025 TMT (Wales) IT and Telecoms

Much of the firm’s success in the area can be attributed to the efforts of ‘knowledgeable and commercially astute’ team head Nicola McNeely, who is skilled at ‘explaining the most technical of subjects in a straightforward and meaningful way’, including blockchain and NFT matters.

The Legal 500 2025 TMT (Wales) IT and Telecoms

Appreciated for its ‘practical and cost-effective service’, as well as its ability and willingness to be engaged with the latest market trends, HCR Law has quickly gained traction since establishing an office in Cardiff in 2020.

The Legal 500 2025 TMT (Wales) IT and Telecoms

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