Laura is a Principal Associate on the Financial Services Disputes and Investigations team.
Her main areas of practice are consumer credit, corporate crime and regulatory enforcement investigations.
Regarding consumer credit, Laura acts for a number of financial institutions defending consumer credit claims. She has also previously defended investment mis-selling claims and life insurance disputes.
In corporate crime/regulatory enforcement investigations, Laura has acted for a range of financial institutions, multinational companies and individual clients, and has been involved in cases conducted by the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority. She is a member of the Corporate Crime and Investigations team and the Regulatory Enforcement team. Laura often deals with international matters and has over the past year worked with the Dubai, Hong Kong, and Jordan offices.
She recently completed a seven-month secondment in the Enforcement division at the Financial Conduct Authority where she worked on a large multijurisdiction AML investigation and was the lead lawyer of an investigation into the mis-sale of enhanced annuities.
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Her experience includes:
- acting for a multinational company in an internal investigation into the activities of its subsidiary in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- drafting a Code of Conduct for a Middle East Regulator
- providing ABC advice for a large multinational company
- acting for a financial institution in response to a S2 Notice issued by the Serious Fraud Office
- acting for a financial institution in respect of a mis-selling allegation in the Middle East
- acting for a multinational company in respect of an internal investigation
- Board Member, Wales Fraud Forum
- Member, Young Fraud Lawyers Association
- Member, Female Fraud Forum