Francesca Bonner-Evans

Francesca has worked in London, Australia and the UAE and is familiar working with several jurisdictions on cross-border investigations. She has worked in private practice at Westpac and at the Royal Courts of Justice as the judicial assistant to Mr Justice Peter Smith.

Francesca's experience includes:

• advising a major financial services firm on parallel investigations by the SFO, DOJ and FCA;
• acting for Westpac in the civil penalty proceedings commenced by the CEO of AUSTRAC;
• advising a major Australian bank in connection with an investigation by ASIC into potentially misleading and deceptive conduct and breaches of the general obligations owed by financial services licensees;
• advising a major Australian bank in connection with an investigation into corruption in an overseas subsidiary, involving self-reporting to the AFP, ASIC and equivalent foreign subsidiaries;
• advising a range of clients, including international banks and financial institutions on AML laws and other areas of financial crime, modern slavery, human rights laws and whistleblowing; and designing, implementing and reviewing compliance and risk management frameworks.

Francesca studied Law at the University of Cambridge and le diplôme d'Études juridiques françaises at the University of Poitiers.