Kelly Sporn
Senior Policy Advisor
London
Kelly Sporn
Senior Policy Advisor
London
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Kelly is a Senior Policy Advisor in the International Environment, Climate and Regulatory Law Group, based in London. She specialises in sustainability/ESG policy and regulatory strategy.
Kelly joined Allen & Overy in 2020 from the Regulatory Policy team at Barclays, where she led engagement on a number of dossiers including sustainability, retail and markets regulation. She worked with senior management, multiple business lines and functions to help develop the bank’s response to sustainability and related regulatory proposals. She represented Barclays on the FCA-PRA Climate Financial Risk Forum Innovation Working Group.
Prior to joining Barclays in 2017, Kelly was a managing associate at Linklaters LLP. She specialised in markets regulation, structured products and derivatives, advising banks, corporates, funds, financial markets infrastructure firms and trade associations. She has broad in-house experience, including policy, legal and business roles.
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Environmental, Social and Governance
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The transition to a sustainable economy: why it is relevant to everyone
As the world grapples with climate change and natural system degradation and their implications for life on earth, A&O has a key role to play in helping put sustainability at the core of all client…
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