//Committee Member Biographies

Dan Byrne	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.
Alexandria Carr	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.
Rebecca Dix	5 Paper Buildings A leading barrister in white-collar crime (GIR 100, 2021), Rebecca specialises in corporate investigations, bribery, and fraud prevention. Formerly the SFO’s Associate General Counsel (Crime), she played a pivotal role in the world’s largest aerospace Deferred Prosecution Agreement. Her practice spans pre-charge advisory for CEOs to Crown Court advocacy. Rebecca is a Governing Bencher of Inner Temple and a former Government Attorney for the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Laurence Fry	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.

Lorinda Long	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.

Ryan Porter	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.
Stephen Potts	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.
Shahmeem Purdasy	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.
Patrick Rappo	Senior Managing Counsel - Financial Crime Legal EMEA, BNY. Responsible for the International Suspicious Activity Reporting Team, Anti-Bribery, Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering. Previously working as a partner at Reed Smith where he focused on corporate and white-collar crime – covering international bribery, corruption, money laundering, fraud, and sanctions –working across high-risk sectors and high-risk jurisdictions. He has a keen interest in preventative measures and incentivising compliance and had a focus on human rights, ESG, AI, and big data. Prior to moving into private practice, Patrick was Joint Head of the Bribery and Corruption divisions at the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO). He has significant experience of corporate self-reporting, acting as the SFO’s point of contact for all such reports, was involved in the changes to the SFO’s self-reporting processes, and helped introduce deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) in the United Kingdom.