Bo is a Senior Associate in the Financial Services team.
Bo is a barrister with over 12 years’ PQE, with extensive FCA experience.
She was formerly a Legal Adviser for the Financial Conduct Authority’s Regulatory Decisions Committee, where she advised the decision-making panel in contested enforcement matters in regulatory proceedings under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Cases often involved household-name banks and high-profile regulated individuals in market sensitive matters, resulting in multi-million pound penalties, prohibition orders and public censures.
Bo was also seconded to the FCA’s International division in R&CL (formerly General Counsel’s Division) where she was the primary adviser to internal stakeholders (Authorisations, Supervision) on disclosure of s.348 FSMA confidential information to overseas regulators and the FCA’s Memoranda of Understanding.
Bo was also a lawyer in the FCA’s Enforcement division, advising on disclosure, s.165 information requirements, s.166 skilled person reports, interviews with subject firms and individuals (including MLROs), stage 1 settlement negotiations, and drafting annotated warning notices.
Expertise
- Financial Services Regulatory
- FCA Investigations
- FCA contested enforcement proceedings
Languages
- Cantonese (bilingual)
- French (conversational)
- Italian (basic)
- Mandarin (basic)
- Japanese (basic)
- Korean (basic)
