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Provided by Eleanor Davison
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Eleanor Davison is a leading practitioner in regulatory law, financial services and commercial crime. She specialises in financial services, professional discipline, fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering and sanctions. She acts for the FCA, PRA, and FRC in enforcement proceedings as well as for senior executives who are the subject of those proceedings.
Eleanor is a member of the SFO A panel and acts in relation to criminal prosecutions of complex fraud. Her practice extends to advising the legal sector on compliance with requests from UK and international enforcement agencies and with the money laundering reporting regime. Eleanor is appointed to APEX as the Bar Standard Board’s money laundering and sanctions expert.
Eleanor has considerable experience as a sole advocate in the commercial and criminal courts as well as acting as part of a broader counsel team. Ongoing and recent cases include the SFO investigation into the Gupta Family Group and its financing arrangements with Greensill Capital UK Ltd, FCA action against Jes Staley and defending former Metro Bank executives, regulatory enforcement proceedings arising from the collapse of London Capital & Finance, instruction by the Bank of England in the PRA’s first case against a Category 1 PRA-regulated firm, acting for Paula Vennells in the Public Inquiry into the Horizon scandal and the Dame Linda Dobbs Review into Lloyds Banking Group.
Her work extends internationally, with instruction on behalf of the investment arm of the UK government in a cross border financial sanctions matter and the Home Office in relation to money laundering issues.
Eleanor is recommended in Who’s Who Legal 2024 in Global Elite Thought Leaders – Global Elite, Investigations and UK Bar. She is described as “an exceptional advocate”, renowned for “analysing complex evidence” and as “having strong expertise in banking and commercial fraud law” and as “a brilliant lawyer” with “a rare expertise in both financial services regulation law and those aspects of criminal law which engage with regulated financial activity,”. She is recommended as a leading junior by Chambers and Partners in Financial Crime, Financial Crime Corporates and Financial Services and by Legal 500 in Business and Regulatory Crime, Financial Services Regulation and Proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture.
Career
Called to the Bar 2003. Educated at Warwick University and Bristol University. Lord Denning scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn). Thomas More scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn). Peter Duffy scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) at the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
Professional Memberships
Fraud Lawyers Association, Financial Services Lawyers Association.
Publications
Co-editor of the Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations. Contributing author to Lissack and Horlick on Bribery. Contributor to Lloyds Financial Crime Law Reports.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Eleanor Davison is an accomplished junior counsel with a respected practice at the intersection of criminal law and civil regulatory matters. Her astute advice is highly valued by household-name financial institutions, and she is also noted for frequently counselling the FCA.
Eleanor Davison is a strong team player with superb communication skills who provides high-quality input under challenging conditions. She has an impressive record of counselling clients from the financial services industry facing multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency investigations. Her areas of expertise include market manipulation and money laundering allegations.
Eleanor Davison is a strong team player with superb communication skills who provides high-quality input under challenging conditions. She has an impressive record of counselling clients from the financial services industry facing multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency investigations. Her areas of expertise include market manipulation and money laundering allegations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eleanor is all in the detail. She is able to spot problems before they become difficulties. She bends over backwards for those who instruct her."
"Eleanor is very impressive and has good judgement. She can work out where the problems are in a case."
"Eleanor Davison is responsive, has impressive judgement and is willing to get into the detail."
"Eleanor is a very astute, diligent and hard-working."
"She's frighteningly clever and her practice spans civil, criminal and regulatory work. Having someone who really understands all of those issues is very helpful."
"Eleanor is exceptionally bright and very talented. She is great at providing strategic advice."
"Eleanor Davison is extremely calm when delivering difficult advice to clients and hugely experienced. She has excellent communication skills and is very empathetic and emotionally intelligent."
"Eleanor is all in the detail. She is able to spot problems before they become difficulties. She bends over backwards for those who instruct her."
"Eleanor is very impressive and has good judgement. She can work out where the problems are in a case."
"Eleanor Davison is responsive, has impressive judgement and is willing to get into the detail."
"Eleanor is a very astute, diligent and hard-working."
"She's frighteningly clever and her practice spans civil, criminal and regulatory work. Having someone who really understands all of those issues is very helpful."
"Eleanor is exceptionally bright and very talented. She is great at providing strategic advice."
"Eleanor Davison is extremely calm when delivering difficult advice to clients and hugely experienced. She has excellent communication skills and is very empathetic and emotionally intelligent."
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