Alison McHaffie is a partner in the Financial Services and Products Team specialising in all types of contentious regulatory matters.

She qualified at CMS in 1995 and has over 20 years of experience of advising financial institutions on these issues.

Alison has an in-depth understanding of how the regulators approach investigations and in successfully helping clients manage significant regulatory issues and remediation projects without regulatory intervention.

Her experience covers a wide range of issues including retail mis-selling, governance, senior management responsibility, conflicts of interest, market abuse, client money, complaints handling, lending, and financial crime controls.

Alison acts for banks, insurers, fund managers, financial advisers, mortgage lenders and consumer credit firms. She advises firms on dealing with regulatory notifications, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions brought by the FCA, PRA and their predecessors, past business reviews, s.166 Skilled Person appointments, complaints before the Financial Ombudsman Service and handling FCA/PRA supervisory and thematic visits. In 1998 she was seconded to the Enforcement Division of the FSA.

She regularly contributes articles to financial services publications and speaks at seminars.