Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Investment funds

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.

2008 to present Kirkland & Ellis International LLP; 1991-2008 Slaughter and May

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

Trinity College, Dublin (1989 LLB); Magdalene College, Cambridge (1990 LLM); The College of Law, London (1991 LSF)