Sara Colas is a managing Director with over 18 years within financial services banking sector. Sara has held senior management and executive positions across several top tier institutions operationally managing and overseeing an array of financial products and businesses. Sara has deep operations management experience, is control and risk focussed combined with technical expertise across a number of financial trading products with an ability to influence and implement change. Sara has a proven track record of operational team leadership, operational re-engineering, experience in start up and building out new and innovative operations solutions that maintain pace with the business development. This is combined with a core understanding of the legal, risk and regulatory framework in which we operate.

Sara brings access to experience and a wealth of knowledge and understanding across a broad business and product spectrum. She has lead numerous regulatory and legislation solutions across the various jurisdictions including MiFID, CASS, Volcker and EMIR, bringing compliance through implementing process and technology.

Through her career Sara has held various leadership and managerial positions with various levels of employee responsibility dependent upon the role. Previously Sara held operations management roles at Lloyds, Merrill Lynch and State Street before moving to Lehman Brothers. Within the Lehman Brothers Administration Sara led the middle office and client service operations teams with a wider focus including solving for the multiple regulatory, legal and operational matters to portfolio repatriation, whilst overseeing the build out of a supporting operations infrastructure. Held responsibility for all regulatory compliance developments and operational forensics capabilities to support evidence in landmark court case hearings.

Responsible for managing client delivery and overseeing product development, Sara has worked with both buy and sell side firms on numerous initiatives including new business and products, operational, business conduct and reform solutions.

Sara has been leading our expert witness engagements, providing litigation support through case management, discovery and research processes, deposition and court live note analysis, whilst also overseeing regulatory compliance review analysis through the expert practice.