Develop commercial law knowledge combined with expertise in issues related to banking law and financial markets regulation. You’ll gain advanced knowledge of the regulatory and legal framework governing financial markets and financial intermediaries, across modules offered from the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Centre.

Study topics such as risk management in financial services, f inancial markets, international banking and f inance law, and legal aspects of financial regulation. Your learning offers the potential to move into specialised careers in the banking and financial sectors.

A postgraduate law degree can open doors to a wide range of employment areas, such as law firms and European and intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as academia (with further postgraduate study), journalism and broadcasting, the civil service and other branches of public service.

Graduates from our LLM programmes have gone on to work for a range of national and international law firms, as lawyers and inhouse legal counsels for large multinational companies in the UK and abroad, as well as international organisations and NGOs.