Fox Williams LLP

Financial services and regulatory

Partner

Sona is co-head of the financial services department at Fox Williams and is the financial services contentious regulatory and investigations practice lead.

Sona represents financial institutions and senior executives on complex regulatory issues and FCA, PRA and SFO investigations.  Sona specialises in advising on matters such as: SMCR; allegations of non financial misconduct; governance and culture; systems and controls failures; money laundering compliance; bribery and corruption; fraud; market misconduct; and financial misstatements, and supports clients navigate enforcement action, prosecution, Supervisory interventions (including restrictions and skilled persons reviews), and remediation.

Sona leads the firm’s independent investigations practice and has extensive expertise in managing sensitive and complex investigations, both inside and outside the regulated sector and across a number of jurisdictions, as well as acting for senior executives that are either the subject of or a witness to such investigations. Sona recently led the FW team with one of the independent investigations at the CBI with respect to historic allegations of criminality and sexual misconduct. Her instructions regularly require liaising with a number of internal and external stakeholders including regulators, law enforcement authorities and Government bodies and committees.

Sona has invaluable first-hand experience through her secondment to the (then) FSA Enforcement Division and is able to draw upon that experience to navigate her clients through the enforcement process. She is a contributing author to the GIR Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations and is regularly called upon to provide training on regulatory matters and investigations best practice to firms.