Rosanne Kay

She has a particular focus on the social and governance aspects of ESG, helping global organisations understand their obligations and achieve compliance with modern slavery and human trafficking requirements, in addition to white-collar matters referred to below.

Rosanne spent 12 months on secondment with the Enforcement Division of the FSA (now the FCA), acting as case lawyer on a number of enforcement actions involving significant financial institutions and individuals, and relating to issues such as systems and controls, the sale of payment protection insurance (PPI), client money handling, and prudential resources.

She also spent six months on secondment with the litigation team of a global U.S. investment bank. In that role, she managed litigation across all of the bank’s business lines in the EMEA region.

Rosanne is regularly listed as a key practitioner in the legal directories, particularly for her corporate crime work. In recent years, she was mentioned in The Legal 500, 2021, 2020, and 2019. Rosanne’s regulatory investigations and corporate crime team is “noted for its experience dealing with international agencies, including the SFO, FCA, DoJ and SEC’’ and one client comments that it is an “experienced international team that is well-acquainted with both European and US regulations and legal practice’’ – Legal 500, 2021. Further highlighting the team’s global capabilities, The Legal 500, 2020 comments on the team’s experience in handling “multi-jurisdictional cases’’ and its particular strength in “conducting work in China, France, the US and the UK’’.