Lucy Frew

Practice Areas

Lucy Frew is a partner based in Walkers' Cayman Islands office and heads the Global Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group. She joined in 2016 and brings more than 20 years' experience as a specialist financial regulatory and risk management lawyer. As well as having advised financial institutions in private practice in international law firms in London since 2001 (prior to which she practised as a barrister) Lucy also has in-house experience as legal counsel at a global bank and in the Enforcement Division at the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.

Lucy's clients are financial institutions across the international and domestic spectrum, including a range of banks, investment funds, administrators, investment managers, advisers, broker-dealers, exchanges and insurance sector clients. She has also advised extensively on fintech and virtual assets since 2013.

Most of Lucy’s matters have a cross-border element and she frequently advises clients on the regulatory impact offshore of international regulatory and tax related initiatives of the FATF, OECD and EU.

Professional Memberships

Lucy serves on many boards and committees with a focus on regulation, risk management, corporate governance, beneficial ownership, remuneration, financial crime and cyberattack prevention, data protection, international transparency, investment funds, FinTech and Cayman Finance's Innovation Lab.