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I am a partner and co-head of Fox Williams' financial services team, specialising in FCA and SFO investigations and corporate internal investigations.


Sona is Co-Head of the Financial Services Department at Fox Williams and is the Financial Services Contentious and Investigations practice lead.

Sona represents corporates and senior executives involved in FCA, SFO and FRC investigations and has experience of cross border investigations involving regulatory bodies and prosecuting authorities based in the US and EU. She advises on a broad range of complex financial services regulatory issues and supervisory queries, particularly on matters involving market misconduct; money laundering; fraud; bribery and corruption; financial misstatements; systems and controls failures; consumer credit related activities; payment services and e-money; and change in control regime concerns.

Sona has particular interest and expertise in advising clients based in the FinTech sector who are facing particularly complex challenges in the current regulatory climate.

Sona leads the firm’s internal corporate investigations offering and has extensive expertise in managing sensitive and complex investigations, both inside and outside the regulated sector and across a number of jurisdictions, as well as acting for senior executives involved in such investigations. Her instructions regularly require liaising with a number of internal and external stakeholders including regulators, law enforcement authorities and Government bodies and committees.

Sona has invaluable first-hand experience through her secondment to the (then) FSA Enforcement Division and is able to draw upon that experience to navigate her clients through the enforcement process.

To contact Sona or for more information…

Call: +44 (0)20 7614 2544
Email: sganatra@foxwilliams.com
Mobile: +44 (0)7850 655 664

My legal expertise

  • Corporate investigations
  • FCA, SFO and FRC investigations
  • Financial services regulation
  • FinTech

Experience

  • Acting for individuals in relation to the high profile investigation in the UK and the US relating to HP / Autonomy, together with related UK and US civil proceedings against various corporate entities and related UK executives.

  • Acted for individuals in relation to the FCA and SFO investigations and proceedings brought against Barclays Bank Plc and others relating to the 2008 capital raisings from the Qatar Investment Authority.

  • Advising a number of executives in relation to regulatory and corporate investigations.

  • Led an internal investigation for a large multinational corporate in relation to financial misconduct and financial misstatements.

  • Led an internal investigation for a large multinational corporate in relation to allegations of bribery and misconduct at a senior level and related market announcements.

  • Acting for a significant number of senior lawyers and bankers (up to C-suite and non-executive director level) at a major retail bank, in relation to the Dame Linda Dobbs Review: http://www.dobbsreview.com/

  • Acting for CBI (the UK’s largest business lobbying group) to conduct the high profile internal investigation in relation to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and other inappropriate behaviour.

 

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To contact Sona or for more information…

Call: +44 (0)20 7614 2544
Email: sganatra@foxwilliams.com
Mobile: +44 (0)7850 655 664

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