I am a Managing Director in the Legal and Compliance Division at Morgan Stanley.
I am the European head of legal coverage for Morgan Stanley’s Prime Brokerage business.
I have been a lawyer for 29 years and practised law in Vancouver, Canada; Tokyo; and London. Before joining Morgan Stanley, I was the European Head of Legal for the Lehman Chapter 11 bankruptcy estate, General Counsel for a European hedge fund and a partner at Allen & Overy (a global law firm). I an the Chair of the trustee for the Morgan Stanley UK pension fund and a trustee of the Temple Grove Schools Trust (a charitable organisation with a focus on primary school education). I am also a member of the Morgan Stanley Diversity Action Counsel and an active mentor (both informally and formally, including with the Firm’s programme with the Social Mobility Foundation and as the MD Sponsor for the Morgan Stanley Trainee Solicitor programme). I also co-sponsor the Firm’s Net East Asia network and the Step In Step Up Foundations in Finance programme. I live in London with my daughter, whom I adopted from Russia in 2010 (as a single parent).