Kerrie McClean

Solicitor with 9 years + of in-house experience providing legal and regulatory advice on derivatives financial products. Background in criminal and family law and regulatory reform.

Senior Solicitor: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Digital Legal Delivery (2025-current)

Solicitor (Master Agreements: Business as Usual) at FinTrU (2023-01 – 2025)

Tier 1 Investment Bank No.2: New York

• Coordinate with Compliance and Regulatory groups to address Regulatory requests and issues.
• Work closely with Risk, Legal, Front Office and Operations teams to ensure negotiated terms in client documentation reflect proper risk assessment and approvals.
• Senior negotiator covering documentation including Futures agreements, Prime Services agreements, margin financing, triparty, and control agreements, cross margin and netting documentation, and bespoke agreements to capture individual client needs.
• Head of Legal Working Knowledge Group responsible for FinTrU Legal Learning and Development including the creation of an Intranet site of resources.
• Management of 5 colleagues working across different clients and projects including all performance reviews and delivery.
• UST project remediation work initial consultations and learning.

Solicitor (Master Agreements: Business as Usual) at FinTrU (2022-01 – 2022-12)

Tier 1 Investment Bank No.2: Paris

• Senior negotiator across all forms of supporting documentation required to efficiently maintain trade flow as well as seamlessly onboard top-tier hedge fund, corporate, and institutional clients.
• Collaborated and participated with project teams to respond to change requirements within the firm; captured and recorded data for various global initiatives involving migrations to electronic workflows and systems.

Solicitor (Institutional Equities Division: Business as Usual) at Tier 1 Investment Bank No 1 (2018-01 – 2021-12)

• Team lead of 6 colleagues which included task delegation, workload supervising, performance management and working collaboratively to increase effectiveness.
• Participated in industry working groups following rule changes from external regulators specifically in relation to EMIR, Brexit and Dodd Frank.
• Implemented remediation projects to amend documentation and updates to policies and procedures corresponding to rule changes.
• Managed significant negotiation caseload.
• Management of additional team of 6 supporting the New York branch of the bank. Directed team relationship-focused regular meetings between client and legal to address open issues between the groups.

Solicitor (UMR Regulatory Remediation Project) at Tier 1 Investment Bank No.1 (2017-01 – 2017-12)

• Analysed and updated collateral agreements in accordance with the regulatory reform requirements of the Uncleared Margin Regime.
• Developed new frameworks to identify non-compliant documentation and ensure timely and consistent amendments across the team.
• Negotiated the economic and legal terms of master agreements with clients.

Solicitor at Tara Walsh Solicitors (2015-07 – 2016-12)

• Represented clients before the Magistrates Court, Family Court, at the Police Station and at various Social Service meetings.
• Drafted court proceedings for the High Court, County Court and Crown Court on a variety of matters.
• Managed a high volume of case files and collaborated with Counsel and a wide range of stakeholders to ensure the best quality outcome for my clients.
• Consulted with clients in a clear and honest manner, delivering difficult messages in stressful environments such as police cells.

Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies in Legal Studies – Queens University Belfast (2013-09 – 2015-07)

Second Class Honors Degree: Law (2:1) in Law – Queens University Belfast (2009-09 – 2013-07)