Kristen DiLemmo
Biography
Overview
Kristen DiLemmo is a partner in our Financial Services Regulatory team based in London.
Kristen advises banks, investment firms, asset managers and technology companies on a wide range of financial services regulatory matters. She has extensive experience across the spectrum of UK and EU regulation, including MiFID II, AIFMD, EMIR, MAR and payment services regulation.
Kristen helps clients navigate the complexities of financial regulation while emphasizing practical, business-focused solutions. She appreciates the particular challenge that regulated firms face when operating cross-border, and keeps operational realities at the forefront when advising.
Prior to joining White & Case, Kristen worked as regulatory counsel for a global information and technology company, and she draws on this commercial perspective when advising.
Experience
Advising wealth managers and IFA consolidators on prudential consolidation requirements, Consumer Duty and the developing regulatory landscape.
Representation of a G20 central bank on its development of a new payment services and open banking framework.
Representation of third-country and domestic fund managers on structuring and marketing requirements under AIFMD.
Advising a global investment bank on the impacts of sustainable finance disclosure requirements on ESG product manufacturing.
Advising an EU market infrastructure provider on continuing its UK operations post-Brexit.
Advising a European energy company on EMIR margining requirements and the renegotiation of its clearing arrangements.
Key Lawyer for Financial Services Regulatory, The Legal 500 UK 2024
