A European approach

Our EAA Strategy

In today's rapidly evolving global environment, our strategy leverages our network in different member states to navigate diverse regulatory landscapes.

This approach ensures consistent skills, standards, and service across all jurisdictions. By employing a central team to co-ordinate these efforts, we not only streamline our know-how and processes, but also guarantee uniformity in our operations and output.

As your business partner, we prioritise your needs every step of the way, ensuring that we adapt our strategies to align seamlessly with your unique needs.

A tailored, business-focused approach

Responding to regulatory change requires a strategy that balances local expertise with seamless co-ordination. Our approach is built to simplify complexity while keeping your business priorities front and centre:

• Customised Compliance Plans: We create strategies tailored to your industry, operations, and goals.
• Efficient central oversight: A centralised team aligns processes, ensuring consistent quality and streamlined execution.
• Tailored to you: We adapt our strategies to your business goals, priorities, and culture, ensuring seamless integration into your operations.

With this approach, we simplify complexity, ensure compliance, and free you to focus on what matters most: your business. In doing so, we don’t just help you meet compliance standards; we position your business to thrive in a rapidly changing regulatory environment.

International reach, local expertise

Navigating complexity across borders

EU member states apply regulations differently, creating challenges for businesses operating internationally. Our unique setup bridges these gaps with:

• Local insights: Offices across EU jurisdictions deliver precise, on-the-ground guidance tailored to local rules.
• Cross-border consistency: Central coordination ensures that strategies align across borders, maintaining uniform standards and efficiency.
• Real-world results: We’ve guided businesses of all sizes through complex compliance challenges, achieving measurable outcomes.

Financial markets excellence

Where excellence meets innovation. Our market-leading International Financial Markets team, with over 600 legal advisors across 15 global offices, is dedicated to providing top-tier legal services across a diverse range of specialisms, including:

• Banking
• Debt Capital Markets
• Financial Services Funds
• Financial Services Regulatory
• Real Estate
• Structured Finance and Derivatives
• Tax

We are committed to fostering a world of collaboration that drives growth and adapts to the dynamic nature of the financial landscape, all while maintaining excellence in client service.

Embedded Legal Design

Legal Design makes legal information more engaging, accessible and user-friendly—while complying with professional or regulatory standards.

How we transform documents

We apply 70+ tests based on ISO, WCAG and industry standards, combined with our industry expertise, to focus our information accessibility review on four basic themes:

1. Content: Is the content understandable for the audience, or is it too technical?
2. Typography: Is the document formatted in a way that ensures readability and accessibility for all users?
3. Usability: Is the structure logical and intuitive, making the document easy to navigate?
4. Accessibility: Are diverse user needs—including those with specific disabilities—fully accommodated?

These bridge across the four European Accessibility Act principles of “perceivable”, “operable”, “understandable” and “robust”. This allows us to tailor our recommendations and support to the nature of legal and financial documents.

We bridge this gap by adapting these technical standards to the unique needs of your sector, ensuring compliance with EAA requirements while maintaining clarity and practicality.

We use the results from the testing and identification phase, combined with our legal, technical, and visual design skills, to uplift documents and make them compliant with the EAA.

Our expertise in action

We don’t just test documents, we transform them into tools for clarity and compliance. Recent successes include:

• Consumer Duty compliance: Simplifying legal and regulatory documents to meet the UK FCA`s requirements while enhancing consumer understanding
• Team empowerment: Providing tailored training and guidance for in-house legal teams to create documents that are inclusive, accessible, and EAA-compliant from the outset.

By combining legal expertise with technical and design skills, we help your business meet EAA standards while improving how your documents communicate and perform.

The Business Impact

Our Legal Design approach goes beyond to deliver measurable benefits:

• Trust and Inclusivity: Documents that are easier to understand build confidence with clients
• Efficiency: Streamlined, accessible documents save time and reduce operational friction
• Competitive edge: Meeting accessibility standards positions your business as forward-thinking and inclusive.