Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Financial Services: Contentious

Partner and Global Practice Co-Leader - Financial Services Disputes and Investigations

Polly is an experienced financial services regulatory lawyer who helps financial institutions and their boards to manage regulatory risks arising in a broad range of situations spanning enforcement proceedings, supervisory interventions (e.g. s166 reviews and use of ‘own initiative powers’), whistle-blower reports, FOS complaints and navigating legal/regulatory changes. Having been on secondment to the FSA Enforcement Division, she knows what it feels like on both sides of the table.

Polly regularly conducts internal investigations in the financial services sector across a wide range of subject matter, with a particular focus on dealing with whistle-blower allegations and other sensitive matters, where she works with trusted employment law colleagues to identify and manage both regulatory risks and employment legal risks.

Polly sits on the advisory board of the Financial Services Lawyers Association (FSLA) and was a founding member of the FSLA Pro Bono Committee, which provides free legal representation for those unable to afford legal fees to defend cases brought against them by the FCA or PRA.