Biography
Deborah Deane is currently a PhD candidate in the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She is a qualified English solicitor and US lawyer with over 35 years of experience in advising a wide range of financial sector clients on UK and international banking and financial services regulatory and compliance issues. Prior to establishing her own law firm she was a partner of PwC Legal (Landwell), the associated law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2005. Previously she held an “of counsel” role at Lovells from 2000 to 2002 and prior to 2000 was Director of Regulatory Services at KPMG (1995-2000) and a senior lawyer in Clifford Chance's Financial Services Group (1988 – 1995). Deborah was also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics from 2010 to 2012. She has worked as a consultant to the FCA and its predecessor regulators on various projects related to the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive as well as working with clients on a wide variety of legal and regulatory projects including applications for authorization, compliance projects including MiFID and EMIR implementation, ongoing compliance monitoring and governance advice on various aspects of the Financial Services and Markets Act and the FCA/FSA Rules. She is also the consultant editor of the Butterworth’s Securities and Financial Services Law Handbook and have contributed to a number of books and many articles including a chapter on international agreements and supranational bodies in financial services law in the fourth edition of Blair, Walker, Purves, Financial Services Law published by Oxford University Press. Deborah has also contributed to working groups of the Financial Markets Law Committee and its predecessor, the Financial Law Panel and advise Liberal Democrat members of the UK House of Lords on regulatory matters.