Elisabeth Bremner
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Corporates)
Band 4
About
Provided by Elisabeth Bremner
Professional Memberships
She sits on The Investing and Savings Alliance (TISA) Consumer Engagement Policy Committee, helping the investment industry respond to regulatory change.
Publications
-A Practitioner’s Guide to Individual Conduct and Accountability in Financial Services Firms Thomson Reuters 2016
-The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations GIR 2017 and 2018
-Former editor of Butterworths Financial Regulation Service (DEPP)
-Compliance Complete, The Insurers Compliance Handbook – Enforcement, Thomson Reuters online current
-Compliance Complete, The Compliance Handbook – Internal Investigations, Thomson Reuters online
Industry Sector Expertise
Financial Institutions
Practice Areas
Elisabeth is a Partner in the Financial Services Regulatory team at CMS. She has more than 25 years’ experience representing financial institutions in cases involving both UK and overseas regulators, dealing with contentious supervisory interventions through to regulatory investigations and enforcement action. She is also frequently appointed as a trusted advisor to members of senior management when facing their own individual investigations.
She has significant experience in cases concerning insider dealing, market abuse, trader mis-marking and financial crime risks in the wholesale sector. Within the retail industry she has expertise in representing clients on cases relating to mis-selling, consumer redress programmes and complaints mishandling. Increasingly she advises on whistleblower investigations and provides support on implementing connected policies and frameworks. She has also advised and acted on high profile conduct issues in the SME corporate banking sector.
Elisabeth has previously spent time at a major bank where she managed the global retail internal investigations team. She has been appointed as a Skilled Person by both the PRA and FCA on various engagements.
Elisabeth has been independently nominated an Acritas Star by in-house counsel in a global client survey. She is individually ranked in Chambers UK.
Education
Admited as a Solicitor
1996
College of Law Chester, Chester
Legal Practice Course: Commendation
1994
Durham University, Durham
A (Hons) (Law) 2:1
1993
Chambers Review
UK
Elisabeth Bremner represents clients including household-name banks, members of their senior management, consumer credit providers and fund managers in FCA investigations, skilled person reviews and compliance breaches.
Elisabeth Bremner represents household-name banks and members of their senior management in FCA investigations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Elisabeth is highly experienced and knowledgeable in all FCA enforcement matters. She is really easy to work with and is responsive, which is invaluable in complex, sensitive and high-profile matters."
"Elisabeth is calm, collected, down to earth and understanding."
"Elisabeth is highly experienced and knowledgeable in all FCA enforcement matters. She is really easy to work with and is responsive, which is invaluable in complex, sensitive and high-profile matters."
"Elisabeth is calm, collected, down to earth and understanding."
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Key Sectors
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Financial Services