This elite group, comprised of experts in the field, personally nominates all invitees and develops the Agenda, which forms the basis of our discussions.
Forum Overview
Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
The Steering Committee welcomes 48 leading attorneys and senior in-house counsel who specialize in enforcement matters for financial institutions. Participants are drawn from the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and complemented by a select few representatives from the United States.
Using candid, seminar-style discussions at this annual meeting, the group shares the most pressing issues they face on behalf of their clients or companies. Participants examine trends and developments in every jurisdiction to learn how others address these problems, and they work together to identify solutions.
2024 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs
Scott Corrigan joined Standard Chartered in March 2014 and currently serves as Group General Counsel. Scott previously served as an Enforcement Counsel for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney’s Office. After leaving government service, Scott represented banks, other financial services firms, and financial services executives in government investigations and civil litigation. He also served in a variety of managerial roles as a law firm partner.
Scott received a J.D. from Yale University in 1992 and a BA, magna cum laude, from Providence College in 1988.
Committee Members
Deepun advises Santander UK on all strategically significant contentious and a range of non-contentious matters. His remit includes litigation, contentious regulatory, cyber, financial crime and employment and he has a dual reporting line to the General Counsel and the Chair of San UK’s Board Litigation & Contentious Regulatory Committee.
1997-2001 - Stephenson Harwood – assistant solicitor acting for a range of European banks, professional services firms, and UK corporates including secondment to the Royal Bank of Scotland plc
2001-2004 - Allen & Overy – senior associate in the Banking and Finance Litigation team acting for US and European investment banks, UK insolvency practitioners and UK corporates - member of the Legal Business Litigation team of the year 2003 with (A&O and Essex Court Chambers)
2004 - 2013 – EY – senior associate in the General Counsel’s Office responsible for litigation, contentious regulatory investigations and commercial legal and financial crime legal
2013 - present - Santander UK – Director of Litigation & Contentious Regulatory - strategic management of legal, regulatory and reputational risk; effective governance and reporting of complex large scale litigation and investigations matters, employment, cyber and financial crime legal advisory. Nominated by members of legal industry for the 2021 Global Leaders in Law “Leaving a Legacy” award for outstanding legal leaders.
As Global Head of Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations at HSBC, Claire oversees the contentious portfolio for HSBC globally and leads the global litigation and investigations teams as well as employment, financial crime and competition legal teams. Prior to this, Claire was Head of Litigation and Investigations for EME at Barclays and prior to that was a Managing Associate at Simmons & Simmons LLP.
Judith Seddon specialises in all areas of national and international white-collar crime, fraud, corruption and regulatory and criminal investigations and prosecutions. She has deep experience and expertise in advising corporates, financial institutions and individuals in internal investigations and when facing complex investigations and enforcement action by regulators and prosecutions, both domestically and cross-border. She has worked and is working on some of the most complex and high profile investigations and prosecutions.
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