A&O Shearman

Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory

Associate

Taylor provides advice to market participants, including broker-dealers, banks, wealth management organizations, electronic trading platforms, alternative trading systems, investment advisers, hedge funds, and private equity firms globally with respect to regulatory, transactional, and trading and markets issues.

Taylor represents U.S. banks and broker-dealers on a range of issues, with particular emphasis on broker-dealer regulation and cross-border considerations.

Taylor regularly advises clients on federal, state, and SRO rules and regulations governing broker-dealers. As part of this advice, she counsels clients on the registration and expansion of broker-dealers and alternative trading systems, including entities focused on investment banking advisory, registered offerings, private placements, research distribution, and secondary trading.