Olivia Kendall-Martin

Olivia Kendall-Martin

Director

Email

olivia.kendall-martin@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 3231

Offices

London

V-CARD
Olivia advises on regulatory strategy, governance, individual accountability, risk management and compliance matters across the UK, EU and Middle East.

She has worked extensively with clients to deliver complex and large-scale transformation programmes in response to business need, and regulatory change and intervention.

Olivia works with major international clients in the financial services sector, including banks and asset managers, and with corporates, both listed and private. She has also worked with a number of clients on their entry into the regulated financial services sector, supporting licensing applications and the implementation of governance, risk and compliance arrangements.

Olivia uses her financial services and regulatory background, having worked at the UK regulator and with EU regulators for several years, to help clients navigate and understand guidance and expectations, whilst finding solutions to meet these expectations that work most efficiently and effectively for the business.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • Conducting a large-scale programme to review and enhance a global bank’s implementation of the SMCR. This included considering the entire senior manager population across multiple entities, the design of appropriate governance arrangements, and the drafting key regulatory documentation.
  • Delivering key components of a Skilled Persons risk remediation programme for a large asset manager, including risk governance, reporting and regulatory engagement.
  • Designing and implementing a streamlined governance framework for multiple UK entities of a large EU asset manager, aligned to regulatory expectations and wider group governance requirements.
  • Secondment to global investment bank to design and implement a corporate governance framework for the EU sub-group, including the UK regulated entity and its subsidiaries.
  • Delivering various workstreams of a large-scale IBOR transition programme for a global bank, including relating to conduct risk management across business lines, use of Term SONIA, and tough legacy policy.
  • Designing and delivering a Recovery and Resolution stress test scenario for the senior management and Board of a global investment bank, including providing recommendations for enhancements to RR playbooks and recovery plan.
  • Providing governance support and advice to various financial services and corporate clients in the UK and ME, including facilitating external Board evaluations, designing Board skills assessments and learning and development plans and drafting committee terms of reference and key process documentation.
  • Supporting various non-bank regulatory license applications within the UK and EU, providing advice relating to organisational, governance and risk management and internal control arrangements, including compliance monitoring plans, enterprise risk assessments and policies.
  • Undertaking an organisational behaviour review for a large asset manager over a multi-year period, including throughout an important transition period as it underwent a multi-jurisdictional merger.
  • Preparing a number of Senior Managers in global investment and retail banks on their regulatory obligations under local accountability regimes such as SMCR.

Pro bono

  • Guest lecturer at the University College London for MSc course module “An Introduction to regulation for fintechs, private equity and venture capital firms”, 2021 and 2022.
  • Supporting UK Finance and the Lending Standards Board with the publication of a report covering best practice guidance in transition from LIBOR for SME customers.

Speaking Engagements

  • Guest lecturer at the University College London for MSc course module “An Introduction to regulation for fintechs, private equity and venture capital firms”, 2021 and 2022.

 

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.