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Caroline Hunter-Yeats

Caroline Hunter-Yeats

Position

Caroline is a financial markets litigation specialist with a particular focus on wealth management firms and complex products sold to high net worth investors. She also regularly advises on the contentious regulatory aspects of the FCA’s product and distributor governance in the retail structured products and asset management sectors. Caroline has been recognised in the major UK directories for a number of years as a leading individual in banking litigation, dispute resolution and professional negligence disputes. In 2009 Caroline was seconded to the wealth management division of a major bank where she headed up their litigation function. This has given her an in-depth insight into the challenges faced by in house counsel and how external lawyers can best support them.

Career

Trained Simmons & Simmons 1997; qualified 1999; admitted as a solicitor-advocate (all higher courts) 2003; partner 2008.

Education

University of Oxford (Jurisprudence).

Mentions

Dispute resolution • London

Banking litigation: investment and retail

Leading partner
Corporate and commercial • London

Financial services: contentious