Julie Matheson
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Professional Discipline
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About
Provided by Julie Matheson
Practice Areas
Julie is a partner in the Regulatory Team. She has a breadth of experience in both prosecuting and defending professionals across all sectors, but now specialises in advising regulated individuals and firms in the financial and built environment sectors. She has particular expertise in acting on behalf of accountants and accountancy firms in high-profile proceedings brought by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA; and on behalf of surveyors in proceedings brought by RICS. She regularly advises senior public sector finance officers on their statutory roles and on challenges brought in respect of them. She also advises the FCA in relation to lessons learned reviews, for example the Davis Inquiry and the Connaught review, and the IFoA in relation to cases brought under its Disciplinary Scheme.
Career
Julie qualified in Scotland in 2004, and in England and Wales in 2009. She joined Kingsley Napley in 2010 and became a partner in 2014.
Professional Memberships
Julie is the Deputy Chairperson of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s Appeals Committee. She is also a member of the Association of Regulation and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL) and the Association of Partnership Practitioners (APP).
Chambers Review
UK
Julie Matheson is highly adept at advising on regulatory matters in the finance sector. She is noted for her representation of the FCA and IFoA in disciplinary proceedings, as well as regulated professionals in FRC, CIMA and CIFPA investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Julie is very professional, polite, and shows excellent judgement. She is a great source of information and advice; a real pleasure to work with."
"Julie is exactly the lawyer you want in your corner. She is dynamic, incisive, energetic and imperturbable."
"Julie handles cases with empathy and professionalism. In a difficult situation you want somebody on your side who knows what they are doing and that is Julie."
"Julie is very professional, polite, and shows excellent judgement. She is a great source of information and advice; a real pleasure to work with."
"Julie is exactly the lawyer you want in your corner. She is dynamic, incisive, energetic and imperturbable."
"Julie handles cases with empathy and professionalism. In a difficult situation you want somebody on your side who knows what they are doing and that is Julie."
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