
Eleanor Davison
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Practice Areas
Eleanor Davison is a leading junior in regulatory law, financial services and commercial crime. She specialises in corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering and sanctions. She acts for companies and senior executives in PRA and FCA enforcement proceedings as well as the FRC in audit enforcement cases.
Eleanor is a member of the SFO A panel. Her practice extends to advising the legal sector on compliance with requests from UK and international enforcement agencies and with the money laundering reporting regime. Eleanor is appointed to APEX as the Bar Standard Board’s money laundering and sanctions expert.
Eleanor has considerable experience as a sole advocate in the commercial and criminal courts as well as acting as part of a broader counsel team. She regularly acts in enforcement proceedings in regulatory cases. Recent cases include regulatory enforcement proceedings arising from the collapse of London Capital & Finance, FCA enforcement proceedings against senior executives of a challenger bank, instruction by the Bank of England in the PRA’s first case against a Category 1 PRA-regulated firm (i.e. a systemically important institution) and the Dame Linda Dobbs Review into Lloyds Banking Group. Her practice includes Public Inquiry work and she acts on behalf of a senior executive at Post Office in relation to the Horizon scandal.
Her work extends internationally and she has been instructed on behalf of the investment arm of the UK government in a cross border financial sanctions matter and the Home Office in relation to AML issues.
Eleanor is recommended in Who’s Who Legal 2022 in Investigations as “an exceptional advocate”, renowned for “analysing complex evidence” and as “having strong expertise in banking and commercial fraud law” and was listed in Who’s Who Legal as a Future Leader in investigations in 2021 as “a brilliant lawyer” with “a rare expertise in both financial services regulation law and those aspects of criminal law which engage with regulated financial activity,”. She is recommended as a leading junior by Chambers and Partners in Financial Crime, Financial Crime Corporates and Financial Services.
Career
Called to the Bar 2003. Educated at Warwick University and Bristol University. Lord Denning scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn). Thomas More scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn). Peter Duffy scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn) at the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
Professional Memberships
Fraud Lawyers Association, Financial Services Lawyers Association.
Publications
Co-editor of the Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations. Contributing author to Lissack and Horlick on Bribery. Contributor to Lloyds Financial Crime Law Reports.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Eleanor Davison
Eleanor Davison is a strong team player with superb communication skills who provides high-quality input under challenging conditions. She has an impressive record of counselling clients from the financial services industry facing multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency investigations. Her areas of expertise include market manipulation and money laundering allegations.
Eleanor Davison
Eleanor Davison is a strong team player with superb communication skills who provides high-quality input under challenging conditions. She has an impressive record of counselling clients from the financial services industry facing multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency investigations. Her areas of expertise include market manipulation and money laundering allegations.
Eleanor Davison
Eleanor Davison is an accomplished junior counsel with a respected practice at the intersection of criminal law and civil regulatory matters. Her astute advice is highly valued by household-name financial institutions, and she is also noted for frequently counselling the FCA.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Eleanor Davison is an extraordinarily capable individual who is very commercially minded, very forensic and focused on evidence."
"She's exceptional and takes a more accessible approach to cases."
"Eleanor has very good judgement. She is easy to work with."
"Eleanor is extraordinarily capable. She is very commercially minded, forensic and pragmatic."
"She has exceptionally strong technical ability and has a real knowledge of the court system."
"She is extremely bright and hard-working and a pleasure to work with."
"Eleanor Davison is an extraordinarily capable individual who is very commercially minded, very forensic and focused on evidence."
"She's exceptional and takes a more accessible approach to cases."
"Eleanor has very good judgement. She is easy to work with."
"Eleanor is extraordinarily capable. She is very commercially minded, forensic and pragmatic."
"She has exceptionally strong technical ability and has a real knowledge of the court system."
"She is extremely bright and hard-working and a pleasure to work with."
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