Overview
Sherryn is a Managing Associate in the Financial Regulation Group, focusing on non contentious financial services regulation. She advises on a broad range of financial markets regulatory issues, with particular experience acting for investment banks, broker dealers, financial market infrastructures and investment managers.
She specialises in the regulatory aspects of day to day business operations, including perimeter and licensing analysis, market conduct requirements, and the design of new trading structures and products. She has significant experience leading large regulatory change projects, including in relation to MiFID (and the recent UK and EU MiFID reforms), MiCA, DORA, CSDR and the EU AI Act. She also regularly advises on fintech matters, with a focus on firms establishing or scaling cryptoasset businesses.
Her broader non contentious practice spans a wide range of regulatory initiatives, including the Short Selling Regulation, the Market Abuse Regulation, AIFMD, client money, the FCA’s Consumer Duty and the IFD/IFR and CRD regimes. A core part of Sherryn’s practice also covers advising clients on the management of regulatory risks, including on supervisory and pre-enforcement interactions with regulators.
Sherryn also advises on M&A transactions and intragroup reorganisations involving regulated businesses. Sherryn has a strong cross border practice. She advises on overlapping regulatory regimes and the development of cohesive, group wide strategies for global operations. A recent secondment to the firm’s New York office further deepened her international experience. Earlier in her career, she also completed a secondment to a leading global investment bank, where she played a key role in its MiFID implementation programme.
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