Laura-May also advises clients on a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues including issues relating to regulatory approvals, systems and controls, and governance. As an experienced litigator, she has also acted for financial institutions in the English High Court.

Laura-May was seconded to one of the UK’s largest retail banks for over a year, where she advised on issues including PPI, retail consumer litigation and dealings with the Financial Conduct Authority (in a supervisory and enforcement context).

Laura-May’s practice also focuses on insurance recovery. She is a member of the Insurance Recovery Group at Reed Smith. She has extensive experience in acting for policyholders in a range of disputes with insurers. Laura-May has represented clients in both arbitration and court proceedings and has particular expertise in coverage disputes involving finance insurance, marine cargo insurance, directors’ and officers’ insurance and reinsurance.

Laura-May is regularly individually ranked in Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK for insurance litigation and has been noted as “impressive”, “very able” and “always on top of the details and excellent with the clients”.