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Sara Hall
Work Department
Regulatory / Digital Assets
Position
Sara Hall is a partner in Walkers’ Global Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group. With almost 30 years’ experience in global senior in-house roles as well as in private practice, Sara now practises Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law.
Sara specialises in all aspects of financial services and international regulation. Since joining Walkers, she has expanded her practice to advise on digital assets, DAOs, cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
With a global client base of onshore firms, financial institutions, custodians, exchanges, founders, directors and investors, Sara advises on matters relating to the scope of regulation, as well as anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, data protection, and tax-related OECD initiatives such as economic substance.
Sara frequently works with onshore counsel to advise clients how offshore regulation might impact their business. Where a business is in scope of offshore regulation, she leads on the licence application process, and supports clients once licensed with their ongoing regulatory obligations.
Career
Prior to joining Walkers’ London office in January 2019, Sara held senior leadership roles at well-known financial services institutions. These included Global Head of Regulatory Compliance at a European headquartered global bank and Head of Global Litigation at an Italian headquartered global bank.
Sara also worked as a senior counsel at the UK financial services regulator (now the UK Financial Conduct Authority) and held a number of senior roles at a US global bank. Sara began her legal career in an international magic circle law firm headquartered in London, England and has enjoyed a number of postings overseas.
Admitted in:
The British Virgin Islands – 2019
England and Wales (not practising) – 1994
Education
Qualifications:
MA (Oxon) in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford
Law Society’s Final Examination (Distinction)
Lawyer Rankings
British Virgin Islands > Regulatory and compliance
Spearheaded by fintech regulation expert Lucy Frew from Cayman, Walkers BVI assists a varied client base across the banking, insurance and reinsurance, and investment sectors on a host of financial regulation and risk management issues, as well as contentious and advisory matters. Data protection, cross-border compliance and risk management specialist Sara Hall is based in London and is known for advising on OECD compliance, while senior counsel Iona Wright, who is the primary contact based in the BVI, is praised by clients for her knowledge of financial services regulatory matters, governance work and corporate transaction regulatory support.
London > Offshore firms in London > Offshore firms in London
With capabilities spanning BVI, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Jersey, Guernsey and Ireland, Walkers‘ is best known for its expertise in Bermuda law and its work with sovereign wealth funds, development finance institutions and high-net-worth individuals. Managing partner Jack Boldarin is an expert in emerging markets transactions. Fraser Hern oversees the insolvency, restructuring and litigation practice. Hughie Wong and Tatziana Paraguacuto co-head the investment funds practice. Neil McDonald and Patrick Ormond for corporate M&A transactions, Mark Galazzi and Catherine Overton for banking instructions, and Sara Hall for regulatory matters, are also highly recommended.