Christina Proffitt

Expertise

Christina is a Knowledge Counsel in the Financial Regulation team, and also supports lawyers at the firm across the Financial Services sector. She focuses on the regulation of banks, investment firms and financial market infrastructure, advising on prudential, conduct and markets regimes across the UK. 

Her experience spans over a decade in global markets and banking regulation, covering the full suite of wholesale financial services legislation including the BRRD, MiFID II / MiFIR, EMIR, CSDR, Securitisation Regulation, MAR, ESG legislation, benchmark reform, cryptoasset and digital assets regulation, operational resilience, and the PRA and FCA handbooks. She has also advised on recovery and resolution planning for an array of market participants, notably with the development and drafting of industry bail-in contractual documentation and cross-border resolution strategies.

Christina has represented a broad range of market participants — banks, investment firms, CCPs, trading venues, CSDs, critical third parties and governmental bodies. Her work encompasses regulatory reform, policy development, market conduct, authorisations, changes in regulatory permissions, and internal compliance and cross-border licensing matters, including post-Brexit developments.

Her current day-to-day work involves working with trade associations and industry bodies to support responses to regulatory and legislative reform. She writes and coordinates briefings and responses to key regulatory developments, which assist clients and internal teams to keep abreast of and navigate regulatory change. 

Prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard, Christina worked in leading financial services practices of four international law firms, before most recently holding a position of senior legal counsel at Citigroup. Whilst in private practice, she also undertook secondments at IHS Markit, BNP Paribas, and JP Morgan.