Dan Byrne
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Dan was called to the bar by Inner Temple in 2005. He is an employed barrister (partner) working at AA Thornton (a boutique IP practice in London) and practising in intellectual property litigation. He was appointed a Deputy District Judge in 2015 and sits in the county courts in and around London, including in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (small claims). He has spent a couple of years practising in Paris at one of the largest French firms (Gide Loyrette Nouel) and is a keen advocate for diversity at the bar, whether employed or self-employed.
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Alexandria Carr
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Alexandria was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1997. She is a specialist in UK and EU financial services regulatory law. Having worked in Government, in private practice and in house, she has considerable experience in negotiating, transposing, advising on and implementing financial services regulatory developments.
She joined the Government Legal Service (“GLS”) in 1999 and had a variety of postings in the GLS including the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, the Ministry of Defence and finally HM Treasury where she was the lead legal adviser on EU financial services strategy with a specific focus on the EU’s response to the financial crisis, particularly the new EU financial services supervisory architecture.
She left the GLS in 2012 to join Mayer Brown, although she was immediately seconded to HM Treasury to serve as legal advisor to a project team considering recent and projected developments in the Eurozone, including proposals for an EU banking union. She returned to Mayer Brown in September 2012 where she practiced in London as Of Counsel with the Financial Services, Regulatory & Enforcement group, providing regulatory advice on transactional matters and advising on regulatory projects.
She was seconded to HSBC in 2015 as Deputy General Counsel for Wealth Management and the following year took up a permanent position as Head of European Regulatory Change.
Alexandria has been a BACFI Committee member since 2013. She is an ex officio member of the Bar Council and vice chair of the EU Law Committee. She believes strongly in “one bar” and seeks actively to integrate the employed and independent bar.
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Rebecca Dix
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Rebecca is Counsel at Dentons in the Global Regulatory and Investigations team, working across borders on corporate internal investigations, training on high risk legal areas, due diligence reports on Anti-Bribery and Corruption policies, advising on criminal enforcement action in white collar defence for corporates and senior executives. Rebecca spent 5 years at the Serious Fraud Office, with the last 2 as the first Associate General Counsel (Crime) she has worked on the most high-profile corporate investigations and prosecutions including Deferred Prosecution Agreements and corporate plea negotiations. At the start of her career she was a tenant at 2 Bedford Row with a financial crime practice, specialising in offences of money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption (with 5 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands investigating and prosecuting former members of Government and their associates for wide spread corruption, instructed by the Foreign Commonwealth Office).
Examples of work include: securing the world’s largest global aerospace industry deferred prosecution agreement, investigation of individuals associated to deferred prosecutions agreements in the oil and gas sector, aerospace and government suppliers, the acquittal of a Barclays swaps desk trader, the acquittal of a former solicitor linked to the Lloyds Banking Group trial (£245m loan 2003-2010) and a multi-national carbon trading investment fraud trial (£100m). Recognised in GIR 100 as a leading female in white collar investigations (2021) and awarded legal team of the year at the Employed Bar (2021).
Former government Attorney in the Turks and Caicos Islands for a corruption investigation into Government officials following Sir Robin Auld's inquiry (R v Misick and others). Hon. Society of Inner Temple Governing Bencher. Former, Chair of the Bar Council Wellbeing Committee.
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Laurence Fry
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Laurence is retired. He has been a member of the Middle Temple since 1989 and was an employed Barrister. Laurence held a number of senior in-house legal positions in the Energy Industry.
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Sara George
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Sara is a Barrister and Partner at Sidley Austin LLP. She is a specialist in international regulatory and criminal investigations. She represents corporations and individuals against allegations of involvement in regulatory contraventions and criminal offences, including market abuse, insider dealing, money laundering, cybersecurity breaches, fraud, corruption and bribery. She is also frequently called upon to advise firms on misconduct issues and reputational management.
Sara is a former prosecutor for the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and brought the first criminal prosecution by the FSA against a director for misleading the market, the first Listing Rule contravention, numerous market abuse cases and refusals of authorisation.
She has sat on the Employed Bar Committee of the Bar Council for 15 years. She is a Master of the Bench at Gray’s Inn.
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Sonia Hayes
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Lorinda Long
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Lorinda is a qualified barrister with over 20 years’ experience in the Financial Services Sector. She is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel in the Equities Legal Department at Bank of America, heading up the Cash Equities and Regulatory legal team based in London, providing legal support to the various business lines in Cash Equities, certain Equities Capital Markets and International Banking activities, and other support functions.
Prior to joining Bank of America, Lorinda worked at a number of financial institutions e.g. NatWest Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Barclays specialising in securitisation and debt capital markets. She spent several years as the General Counsel of the Treasury Division at HBOS with responsibility for managing and building a legal department of more than 30 people to provide legal support to the Treasury Division’s businesses globally.
Lorinda was Treasurer of the Bar Council from 2015 to 2018, again in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
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Charlotte Pope-Williams
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Charlotte was called to the Bar in 2011. She undertook pupillage at a leading set of London chambers specialising in commercial, common law and criminal regulatory law where she remained for a short while. Charlotte subsequently worked as an employed barrister in the Bank of England’s Legal Directorate where career highlights included but are not limited to (i) working on the Prudential Regulation Authority’s £14,000,000 fine of RBS, (ii) working on the first ever Shari’ah Compliant Facility formally contemplated by a Western European central bank and (iii) working on transition away from LIBOR. Charlotte is then entered private practice at Pinsent Masons LLP for just under half a decade where she specialised in financial services disputes. Charlotte is now back in self-employed practice as a commercial/chancery practitioner at 3 Hare Court.
Charlotte was an elected member of Bar Council from December 2014 until April 2023. She sits on the Bar Council’s Employed Barristers Committee where her work has included teach-ins on financial literacy for junior practitioners and pushing for insurance cover for employed barristers so that they can undertake pro bono work through Advocate (formerly known as the Bar Pro Bono Unit). Charlotte mentors individuals at various stages of their careers, particularly those with protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and previously sat on the COMBAR Equality and Diversity Committee. Charlotte also currently sits of the Financial Services Lawyers Association EDI Committee.
She is also currently an Independent Governor sitting on the Court (the equivalent of a Board of Directors) of the University of Aberdeen.
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Ryan Porter
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Ryan was called to the Bar in 1999. He is currently an employed barrister working at Lloyds Bank, specialising in financial market contracts and regulation. Before entering the City, Ryan completed pupillage at a leading banking law set after a period lecturing on English contract law at the University of Warsaw.
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Stephen Potts
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Formerly a student member in the 1990s, Stephen rejoined BACFI in 2007. Since call in 1997 he has practised in-house in the area of banking and finance within, both, regulated financial institutions and non-FI corporate environments.
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Shahmeem Purdasy
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Shahmeem was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 2000. He specialises in financial crime law, regulation and compliance and he has experience in supervision, enforcement, advisory, policy development and legislative drafting, acquired through a variety of roles in mixed disciplinary teams, in both a private sector and governmental setting.
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Patrick Rappo
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Patrick is a Partner at the London office of DLA Piper UK LLP and Co-Chair of the Global Investigations & Compliance Group. Patrick represents companies and individuals across high risk sectors and high risk jurisdictions, and has been involved with a number of high profile investigations and prosecutions – including Global Investigations Review’s “Most Important Case of 2020”: SFO v Barclay’s Bank. He works on a range of matters from proactive compliance programme design and implementation, to responding to government investigations and prosecutions, including the DoJ, SFO and World Bank. He previously lead the Bribery & Corruption Divisions at the UK Serious Fraud Office and has been a specialist criminal law advocate at 9 Bedford Row. In addition, Patrick also holds positions as; Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn; Approved Advocacy Trainer for the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple; Pupil Supervisor and Trustee of the Fraud Advisory Panel.
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