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Alya Gordon

Senior Manager

Email

alya.gordon@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 3248

+44 7388853933

Offices

London

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Alya advises clients on regulatory, governance, culture, risk and controls framework issues across various sectors and jurisdictions.

She has extensive experience working with financial service firms and corporates to provide practical and strategic guidance to their boards, senior management teams, and Heads of Compliance. Alya leverages her deep understanding of the regulatory landscape and expectations, gained from her regulatory roles in the UK and Australia, to help clients navigate complex and evolving challenges, enhance their frameworks and processes, and achieve their business objectives.

Experience

Representative matters

  • Undertaking a regulatory due diligence review for a client in relation to a potential investment in a new bank which was preparing to exit its mobilisation period, covering key areas such as funding, recruitment, operationalisation, control functions, systems and IT infrastructure, and recovery and resolution planning.
  • Supporting an organisational behaviour review for a Tier 1 bank, including a review of its risk culture framework and conducting a number of focus groups to identify key cultural strengths and opportunities for improvement.
  • Undertaking a review of a Tier 1 bank's conflict of interest framework including policies and procedures to ensure alignment with UK regulatory requirements and peer best practice.
  • Conducting a skills assessment of the Board and Executive Committee of a UK bank, developing a questionnaire, conducting interviews, and producing a report on the findings and recommendations.
  • Supporting a global, US headquartered bank to develop a formal response to a US regulator in relation to concerns about weaknesses in its financial crime framework, including developing an end to end review of its transaction monitoring remediation plans.

Pro bono

  • Mentoring young people through the firm's award-winning Smart Start programme.

Qualifications

Admissions

Supreme Court of Queensland, 2011

Courts

High Court of Australia, 2012

Academic

LLM, Corporate and Commercial Law, University of New South Wales, 2016
 
Graduate Diploma, Legal Practice, Queensland University of Technology, 2011
 
LLB / BA, Law and International Relations, Griffith University, 2010 
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.