Allison H. Breault’s practice focuses on advising U.S. and international banking, financial services and private equity clients on a broad range of matters including bank regulatory and financial services reform issues, affiliate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and structured transactions.

Allison has particular experience with the U.S. and European implementation of the Basel capital and liquidity frameworks, total loss absorbing capacity and stress testing matters.

Allison joined the firm in 2008 and became a senior attorney in 2017. From 2008 to 2012, she was resident in the Washington, D.C. office. She served as a senior attorney at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2003 to 2008, which included a secondment to the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. While at the Federal Reserve, Allison focused on issues related to the supervision of U.S. bank holding companies and the U.S. operations of international banking organizations. She was closely involved in the development of the Basel II advanced approaches and market risk capital rules and the Federal Reserve’s Regulation W.