Sara
Ross
Senior Regulatory Advisor
Sara is a Senior Regulatory Advisor in the firm’s Financial Institutions Group with 18+ years’ experience advising buy-side and sell-side organisations on all aspects of EU and Irish financial services regulation including navigating complex regulatory frameworks – especially during periods of legal and regulatory change, divergence or implementation.
Sara also has extensive experience leading large, cross-border legal and compliance projects as well as advising on business-as usual matters.
Her experience spans private practice in London and Dublin as well as secondments at a global bank and a global asset manager in London.
Sara regularly engages with EU and national regulators on policy responses, sits on various industry body working groups and regularly speaks at events on compliance trends and reform.
Experience and Education
Sara’s experience includes advising:
- a Canadian bank and asset manager on Brexit planning; business mapping; identifying potential EU hub locations and implementation;
- a US bank and asset manager on its Brexit planning; business mapping; identifying potential EU hub locations and implementation;
- a US global asset manager on its Brexit planning; business mapping; identifying potential EU hub locations; implementation;
- an Australian bank and asset manager on its EU-wide implementation of MiFID2;
- a US bank on its EU-wide implementation of MiFID2;
- a US global asset manager on a deep-dive review and remediation of its global position disclosure compliance;
- a US bank and asset manager on a deep-dive regulatory perimeter review of its private funds division;
- numerous banks and asset managers on their global distribution and licensing requirements.
- Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland – 2024
- Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (practising) – 2008
- BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course (LPC) – 2005
- University College London, English Law with French Law LLB – 2004
- Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Certificat superieur du droit francais – 2003