Zeena is a partner in Dentons' Global Compliance & Investigations practice. She has extensive experience advising financial institutions, regulators, listed companies, regulated investment exchanges and senior executives in respect of contentious regulatory and criminal enforcement action brought by authorities such as the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Serious Fraud Office and HMRC. Her experience extends to supporting clients through a crisis and she often conducts internal investigations with an international focus involving alleged breaches of corporate governance controls, regulatory breaches, market abuse, insider dealing, corporate crime (including fraud, money laundering, and bribery and corruption) and non-financial misconduct. Where changes to a client's compliance controls are recommended following the outcome of an investigation, Zeena will support her clients in taking all necessary steps to enhance their controls and is increasingly interested in the use of AI to help clients meet their compliance goals. 

In addition to her time in private practice, Zeena is able to use her wealth of experience from her time at a FTSE listed-company, UK retail banks and an international investment bank to provide her clients with clear yet pragmatic advice in respect of these usually high-profile and high-stakes issues.

Zeena's recent experience includes:

• Supporting a financial services firm, as part of a Dentons cross practice team, in respect of a cyber-security incident.
• Advising a finfluencer in respect of the FCA's latest crackdown on alleged unlawful promotions.
• Leading an investigation into allegations of bribery and corruption on behalf of a consortium of businesses involved in an LNG to Power project.
• Advising a corporate broking and advisory firm in respect of FCA inquiries about its financial crime and market abuse compliance controls.
• Successfully challenged the FCA on behalf of a financial services firm which had entered into a voluntary requirement prohibiting its involvement in certain regulated activities.
• Conducting an investigation for a large corporate following allegations of fraud in respect of representations it made to the Information Commissioner's Office.
• Advising a former Senior Executive Committee member of a large asset manager following the commencement of an FCA investigation into allegations of non-financial misconduct and corporate governance breaches by certain partners at the firm.
• Conducting an internal investigation for a foreign-listed pharmaceuticals company following receipt of whistleblowing allegations of non-financial misconduct from an Executive Committee member.