Katharine Harle

Katharine Harle is a Partner and leads the UK Regulatory & Investigations team, co-leading the UKIME branch of Dentons' Global Compliance & Investigations group. Her practice focuses on financial services regulation, investigations, and contentious regulatory matters, with particular expertise in governance, conduct and culture.

She previously spent nearly five years as an FCA lawyer, including working in its Enforcement division, and has been involved in many of the most significant regulatory issues over the past 15 years, including bank charges, PPI, Keydata, Libor, FX, IRHPs and Woodford. She advises clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious regulatory and strategic issues, including the Senior Managers & Certification Regime, the Consumer Duty, non-financial misconduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings. Her clients include public organisations and a wide range of regulated firms, including banks, investment firms, insurers, brokers, credit institutions and payments firms, as well as individuals.

Katharine holds a B.A. in Law from the University of Cambridge (2001) and an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Birmingham (2004).

She is described by The Legal 500 as a "remarkably knowledgeable financial services practitioner" who "ably deploys her many years of experience within the regulator", and has been shortlisted for Financial Regulation Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law awards.