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Emma Sutcliffe

Emma Sutcliffe

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Simmons & Simmons

Simmons & Simmons

England - London • Corporate and commercial

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Financial services: contentious

Spearheaded by the 'brilliant' Emma Sutcliffe, Simmons & Simmons boasts an integrated contentious, non-contentious and crime and competition offering. Drawing on in-house experience at the FCA, PRA and PSR, the team is well-placed to effectively represent a diverse financial services client base, from retail and wholesale banks, asset managers, brokers to fintech companies and crypto platforms. Key workstreams for the group include market abuse, misconduct, regulatory investigations, controls breaches, and individual accountability matters. Sutcliffe is a key contact for clients seeking advice on conduct risk, whistleblowing, cultural issues, and sensitive regulatory matters involving board-level stakeholders. Practice co-head Caroline Hunter-Yeats is a leading adviser on FCA Consumer Duty matters and large-scale investigations, with a strong reputation for representing both firms and senior individuals in enforcement actions involving governance, conduct risk, and financial crime. Douglas Robinson advises a mix of fintech clients, crypto platforms, and financial institutions on complex regulatory and enforcement matters, drawing on considerable experience in high-value disputes across digital assets, payments, and financial crime.
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+44 20 7825 4250
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[email protected]
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simmons-simmons.com
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Work Department
Dispute Resolution.
Position

Emma is Head of the Disputes and Investigations Group in the UK. She has acted on a range of major investment banking disputes on both the financial markets and retail banking side and is a leading partner in the contentious regulatory practice. In particular, Emma has extensive experience of contentious financial services work, including regulatory investigation and enforcement (including from time spent on secondment to the FCA). Emma has advised multiple clients on conduct risk queries including assessment of conduct rule breaches and fitness and propriety, regulatory reporting requirements and regulatory references. Emma also frequently advises on the implications of the changes to firms introduced by the Senior Manager & Certification Regime.

Career

Trained in a leading international law firm including two seats in litigation, one in London, one in Hong Kong; qualified into a financial markets litigation department in 2005; has undertaken two secondments in the litigation teams at global investment banks and one year long secondment to the FCA’s Enforcement and Markets Oversight team.

Education

Politics, Philosophy, Economics MA Oxon; PGDL College of Law Guildford; LPC BPP London.

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  • ‘Fantastic team, extremely collegiate. See them as an extension to our internal litigation & investigation team.’

  • ‘Combine market knowledge and technical ability to provide relevant and timely legal advice.’

  • ‘Emma Sutcliffe is excellent. Highly responsive and tuned in to client needs, technically brilliant and very focused on effective outcomes.’

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