Jill Lorimer
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Financial Services: Contentious Regulatory (Individuals)
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About
Provided by Jill Lorimer
Practice Areas
Jill is a partner in Kingsley Napley’s Financial Services Group. She has an extensive track record in advising firms and individuals facing regulatory and criminal investigations by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Having recently completed a 12 month secondment in the Criminal Prosecutions Team at the FCA, Jill has particular insight into the organisation’s approach to the investigation and prosecution of serious financial offences.
Jill has particular experience in advising those facing insider dealing / market abuse and market manipulation allegations and offences under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA). She also advises a number of authorised firms including private banks, wealth management firms and brokerages in respect of supervisory and enforcement issues.
More generally, Jill has a broad fraud practice and has involvement in many of the largest Serious Fraud Office investigations. Jill has written widely on cyber-crime and has a particular interest in the regulatory and criminal aspects of crypto-assets and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).
Career
Jill joined Kingsley Napley in 2007 and became a partner in 2014.
Professional Memberships
Financial Services Lawyers Association; Fraud Lawyers Association
Publications
Chapter contributor to:
Kingsley Napley: Serious Fraud, Investigation and Trial (4th edition, Lexis Nexis)
Cyber Security: Law and Guidance (Bloomsbury Professional)
Chambers Review
UK
Jill Lorimer has an active practice representing individuals, including HNW individuals, senior individuals, administrators and representatives. Jill provides expertise in insider trading, market abuse and misconduct to individuals facing investigation by the FCA.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jill is a brilliant and humble lawyer. She is unassuming yet incredibly thoughtful and astute. Her IQ is super-high and she is absolutely brilliant with clients."
"Jill is very approcheable, easy to work alongside and is extremely knowledgeable. She is never afraid to go to bat for her clients."
"Jill Lorimer is completely dedicated. She knows the law and the case inside-out and she can handle difficult clients beautifully. As a source of knowledge, she's second to none."
"Jill is a brilliant and humble lawyer. She is unassuming yet incredibly thoughtful and astute. Her IQ is super-high and she is absolutely brilliant with clients."
"Jill is very approcheable, easy to work alongside and is extremely knowledgeable. She is never afraid to go to bat for her clients."
"Jill Lorimer is completely dedicated. She knows the law and the case inside-out and she can handle difficult clients beautifully. As a source of knowledge, she's second to none."