EXPERTISE

Natalie is a Managing Associate in the Global Investigations team. She has experience advising on a wide range of regulatory and commercial disputes, and regularly leads and manages complex investigations, often those with an international element. She also advises clients on related compliance issues.  Natalie has also spent time on secondment at one of the UK’s largest clearing banks, where she advised on a variety of contentious and investigation matters.

Natalie’s recent investigations experience includes:

  • acting for Entain plc on its Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the CPS
  • acting on an investigation relating to issues of alleged theft of confidential information

Natalie's recent financial services experience includes:

  • conducting large scale remediation exercises for banks, including using AI, in relation to deceased customers in debt and applicant qualification requirements for loans
  • advising a major UK retail bank on legal issues relating to participating in Covid lending schemes
  • advising a director of a UK plc in relation to the company's internal investigation and related FCA enforcement investigations
  • acting on a complex investigation for a UK plc relating to financial services law
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Managing an internal investigation", Chapter in the Thompson Reuters Compliance Handbook (published in June 2022). Co-edited with Sarah Thomas. 
EDUCATION
  • University of Leicester: LLB (Hons) Law with a Year Abroad (year abroad spent at the Flinders University of South Australia) (Upper Second Class Honours, 2013)
  • University of Law, Manchester: LPC (Distinction, 2015)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
  • Health & Safety Lawyers Association
  • Manchester Young Solicitors Group
  • Young Fraud Lawyers Association