Dennis Rosenthal

Dennis is a recognised expert in consumer credit law and is the leader of BLP’s consumer finance practice (which is ranked number 1 in the UK by Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession). He has been advising in this field for many years and is long-term legal advisor to the Consumer Credit Trade Association. He advises banks, finance companies, leasing companies, credit card and pre-paid card-issuers and building societies generally and on standard form and bespoke agreements, retail banking, data protection, fraud prevention and regulatory issues.

Dennis has been responsible for developing a range of innovative products including the first offset mortgage, the first unit trust mortgage, the first regulated drawdown mortgage, the “Together Mortgage”, a cheque book credit account, a secured credit card account, the “Tandem” credit card and savings account and various multiple agreements.

Dennis is an assistant editor of Goode: Consumer Credit Law and Practice and Goode: Consumer Credit Reports; author of Consumer Credit Law and Practice (Tottel Publishing) and Financial Advertising and Marketing Law; a contributor to “Consumer Credit” in The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents and in Halsbury’s Laws of England.

Dennis is “the “doyen of consumer credit,”” (Chambers 2009)

He “…possesses an ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of the legislation….Another of his
strong points is his ability to draft clear and concise consumer credit documentation.” (Chambers 2008)