Jan Putnis

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 3211 (Direct line)
• E  jan.putnis@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Jan works in two broad and diverse areas: financial regulation and corporate and commercial transactions.

As a partner in the firm’s Financial Regulation group, Jan acts for a broad range of financial institutions, including banks, insurance groups and asset managers, on regulatory matters and investigations, cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions and on outsourcings. His work includes advice on regulatory capital aspects of leveraged acquisitions. He is also involved in structuring complex financial products.

Jan has a particular interest in the harmonisation of regulation of financial institutions within Europe with emphasis on the means of structuring and achieving cross-border business consolidation amongst banks and insurance groups. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, his work in this area has included acting on a number of high profile outsourcings, including the landmark 2004 outsourcing by AXA Investment Managers of its back- and middle-office functions in France, Germany and the United Kingdom to State Street.

Jan’s corporate and commercial work comprises a broad range of advice on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and reorganisations for corporate clients, principally with a cross-border emphasis. He is the author of the chapters on share dealings, information requirements and mandatory bid obligations in the LEXIS/NEXIS Butterworths book 'Takeovers: Law and Practice' (2005) and is a contributing author on takeovers in the forthcoming Oxford University Press looseleaf publication 'Annotated Companies Acts' (2007).

Jan is also one of the partners responsible for the firm’s relationship with the leading Italian lawyers with whom the firm works in fully integrated teams on corporate, commercial and other transactions. He has acted on a number of Anglo-Italian transactions in the fashion sector. Separately, Jan acted for Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo S.p.A. (SAVE) on the international element of its initial public offering in 2005 and for the joint institutional managers of the initial public offering of Società Aeroporto Toscano (SAT) Galileo Galilei S.p.A. in 2007.