Victoria is a member of the Corporate Crime and Investigations team. She has significant experience in advising on international economic sanctions and anti-money laundering.
Victoria is a Principal Associate in the Corporate Crime and Investigations group. She has experience in all areas of corporate crime but particularly focuses her practice on international economic sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML). Victoria has over 10 years of experience in corporate crime and is one of the firm’s most experienced lawyers in the highly specialized area of sanctions.
Victoria regularly advises international financial institutions and other corporate entities. She leads on complex and technical sanctions advice and large-scale investigations in respect of US, EU and UK sanctions. Victoria has been the lead lawyer on large-scale historic sanctions investigations, working internationally across our US and UK offices.
Victoria’s recent experience includes:
- leading a sanctions investigation, involving approximately 200 lawyers and investigators and over 2m transactions, for a financial institution covering both US and UK sanctions
- conducting a large-scale historic sanctions investigation involving approximately 14m transactions for a technology client operating within the insurance sector. Victoria also advises this client in all aspects of its BAU sanctions compliance program
- advising both corporate entities and financial institutions in respect of sanctions in respect of Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover
- representing Barclays in the reported case of Elaine Hmicho v. Barclays Bank Plc [2015] EWHC 1757 (QB), the first leading UK decision regarding ownership and control in relation to EU and UK sanctions
- advising multiple UK and EU based companies with respect to the EU and UK Blocking Regulation
- Co-authored a chapter on sanctions compliance programs for Global Investigations Review’s first-ever book on sanctions compliance, “The Guide to Sanctions”
- Produces a quarterly horizon scanner regarding legal updates expected in financial crime
- Member of the UK Finance Associate Members sanctions panel
- Director of the North West Fraud Forum
- Legal Practice Certificate, BPP Law School, 2008-2009
- Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School, 2006-2008
- BSc (Honours) in Psychology, The University of Manchester, 2002-2005
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