Lisa Cawley > Kirkland & Ellis International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP Offices
30 ST MARY AXE
LONDON
EC3A 8AF
England
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Lisa Cawley
Work Department
Investment funds
Position
Lisa Cawley is a regulatory partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Lisa has extensive experience in financial services regulation, gained over more than 20 years practicing at the forefront of the market. Her experience includes, but is not limited to, advising clients on governance and other compliance arrangements; the establishment of new investment, banking and insurance businesses in the UK, and applications for FCA authorisation; regulatory issues arising in connection with fund structuring, particularly in relation to pan-European and global private equity funds; market abuse and insider dealing issues and the regulatory consequences of rule breaches.
Career
2008 to present Kirkland & Ellis International LLP; 1991-2008 Slaughter and May
Memberships
Law Society of England and Wales; Member of the Financial Service Authority’s AIFMD Group of Legal Experts; Member of Invest Europe’s Public Affairs Executive Technical Group; Founder of Transatlantic Regulatory Lawyer Group
Education
Trinity College, Dublin (1989 LLB); Magdalene College, Cambridge (1990 LLM); The College of Law, London (1991 LSF)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
(Leading partners)Housing an ‘unrivalled bench of leading partners’, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP counts private equity firms, alternative investment funds, fund managers and investment advisers among its key roster of clients. Practice leader Lisa Cawley’s wide-ranging experience includes handling the financial services regulatory aspects of high-end transactions, while Julia Dixon advises clients on a range of regulatory mandates and compliance with UK and EU regulation. Adam Skinner focuses on regulatory issues arising within the private investment fund sector. Deirdre Haugh is another key contact in the group.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > High yield
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Industry focus > TMT
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium