Leonie Tear

Leonie specializes in financial crime investigations and compliance. She has a wealth of experience in assisting clients to respond to enforcement action brought by various global regulators, including
Hong Kong, US, and UK authorities.

Leonie has extensive experience in assisting corporates and financial institutions to build or remediate compliance programmes benchmarking them against regulator expectations.

Leonie’s work includes:

• Advising global banks under enforcement for suspected regulatory breaches;
• Working with industry and government bodies in relation to AML/CTF regulatory changes in Hong Kong and the development of associated industry guidance;
• Advising on the risk of sanctions breaches arising from proposed transactions under global sanctions regimes; and
• Conducting compliance due diligence.