Dan Byrne
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Dan was called to the bar by Inner Temple in 2005. He is an employed barrister (partner) working at Venner Shipley and practising in intellectual property litigation. He was appointed a Deputy District Judge in 2015 and sits in the county courts in and around London, including in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (small claims). He has spent a couple of years practising in Paris at one of the largest French firms (Gide Loyrette Nouel) and is a keen advocate for diversity at the bar, whether employed or self-employed.
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Alexandria Carr
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Alexandria was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1997. She is a specialist in UK and EU financial services regulatory law. Having worked in Government, in private practice and in house, she has considerable experience in negotiating, transposing, advising on and implementing financial services regulatory developments.
She joined the Government Legal Service (“GLS”) in 1999 and had a variety of postings in the GLS including the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, the Ministry of Defence and finally HM Treasury where she was the lead legal adviser on EU financial services strategy with a specific focus on the EU’s response to the financial crisis, particularly the new EU financial services supervisory architecture.
She left the GLS in 2012 to join Mayer Brown, although she was immediately seconded to HM Treasury to serve as legal advisor to a project team considering recent and projected developments in the Eurozone, including proposals for an EU banking union. She returned to Mayer Brown in September 2012 where she practiced in London as Of Counsel with the Financial Services, Regulatory & Enforcement group, providing regulatory advice on transactional matters and advising on regulatory projects.
She was seconded to HSBC in 2015 as Deputy General Counsel for Wealth Management and the following year took up a permanent position as Head of European Regulatory Change.
Alexandria has been a BACFI Committee member since 2013. She is an ex officio member of the Bar Council and vice chair of the EU Law Committee. She believes strongly in “one bar” and seeks actively to integrate the employed and independent bar.
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Rebecca Dix
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Rebecca is a practising barrister at 5 Paper Buildings, Chambers of Robert O'Sullivan KC. Rebecca's practice specialises in corporate internal investigations, training on high risk legal areas, due diligence reports on Anti-Bribery and Corruption policies, advising on criminal enforcement action in white collar defence and prosecution of corporates and senior executives. Having returned to the Bar after several years in employed practice Rebecca is also instructed as trial counsel in both defence and prosecution of criminal cases.
Rebecca was employed for six years at the Serious Fraud Office, with the last two years as the first Associate General Counsel (Crime), working with General Counsel Sara Lawson KC. In that role, Rebecca has worked on the most high-profile corporate investigations and prosecutions including deferred prosecution agreements and corporate plea negotiations.
At the start of her career she was a tenant at 2 Bedford Row with a financial crime practice, specialising in offences of money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption (with 5 years in the Turks and Caicos Islands).
Examples of work include: securing the world’s largest global aerospace industry deferred prosecution agreement, investigation of individuals associated to deferred prosecutions agreements in the oil and gas sector, aerospace and government suppliers, the acquittal of a Barclays swaps desk trader, the acquittal of a former solicitor linked to the Lloyds Banking Group trial (£245m loan 2003-2010) and a multi-national carbon trading investment fraud trial (£100m). Recognised in GIR 100 as a leading female in white collar investigations (2021) and awarded legal team of the year at the Employed Bar (2021).
Former government Attorney in the Turks and Caicos Islands for a corruption investigation into Government officials following Sir Robin Auld's inquiry (R v Misick and others). Hon. Society of Inner Temple Governing Bencher. Former, Chair of the Bar Council Wellbeing Committee.
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Laurence Fry
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Laurence is retired. He has been a member of the Middle Temple since 1989 and was an employed Barrister. Laurence held a number of senior in-house legal positions in the Energy Industry.
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Lorinda Long
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Lorinda is a qualified barrister with over 20 years’ experience in the Financial Services Sector. She is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel in the Equities Legal Department at Bank of America, heading up the Cash Equities and Regulatory legal team based in London, providing legal support to the various business lines in Cash Equities, certain Equities Capital Markets and International Banking activities, and other support functions.
Prior to joining Bank of America, Lorinda worked at a number of financial institutions e.g. NatWest Capital Markets, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Barclays specialising in securitisation and debt capital markets. She spent several years as the General Counsel of the Treasury Division at HBOS with responsibility for managing and building a legal department of more than 30 people to provide legal support to the Treasury Division’s businesses globally.
Lorinda was Treasurer of the Bar Council from 2015 to 2018, again in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
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Ryan Porter
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Ryan was called to the Bar in 1999. He is currently an employed barrister working at Lloyds Bank, specialising in financial market contracts and regulation. Before entering the City, Ryan completed pupillage at a leading banking law set after a period lecturing on English contract law at the University of Warsaw.
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Stephen Potts
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Formerly a student member in the 1990s, Stephen rejoined BACFI in 2007. Since call in 1997 he has practised in-house in the area of banking and finance within, both, regulated financial institutions and non-FI corporate environments.
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Shahmeem Purdasy
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Shahmeem was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 2000. He specialises in financial crime law, regulation and compliance and he has experience in supervision, enforcement, advisory, policy development and legislative drafting, acquired through a variety of roles in mixed disciplinary teams, in both a private sector and governmental setting.
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Patrick Rappo
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Patrick is a Partner at the London office of BNY and Co-Chair of the Global Investigations & Compliance Group. Patrick represents companies and individuals across high risk sectors and high risk jurisdictions, and has been involved with a number of high profile investigations and prosecutions – including Global Investigations Review’s “Most Important Case of 2020”: SFO v Barclay’s Bank. He works on a range of matters from proactive compliance programme design and implementation, to responding to government investigations and prosecutions, including the DoJ, SFO and World Bank. He previously lead the Bribery & Corruption Divisions at the UK Serious Fraud Office and has been a specialist criminal law advocate at 9 Bedford Row. In addition, Patrick also holds positions as; Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn; Approved Advocacy Trainer for the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple; Pupil Supervisor and Trustee of the Fraud Advisory Panel.
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