MoForever Alumni News Winter 2021

15 | MoForever Winter 2021 EUROPE & ASIA London Office Hayley Ichilcik joined the firm as a partner in the Global Investigations + White-Collar Defense Group. Her practice focuses on white-collar criminal litigation defense, financial crime investigations, and compliance reviews. She represents both corporates and individuals in criminal litigation and regularly conducts internal investigations. Hayley specializes in anti-bribery and anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, anti-tax evasion, trade, and financial sanctions, as well as the UK Modern Slavery Act and whistleblowing regulations. She advises clients across a range of sectors, including technology, financial services, oil and gas, healthcare, and mining. (LL.B., 2003, University of New South Wales) Gareth Rees QC joined the firm as a partner in the Global Investigations + White-Collar Defense Group. Gareth is a highly experienced white-collar crime and regulatory barrister who was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2003. Between 2012 and 2017, he was the Executive Director of Enforcement and Executive Counsel at the Financial Reporting Council, the UK’s statutory audit regulator and corporate governance authority, where he led high- profile investigations and prosecutions of accountants, auditors, and actuaries. His practice covers corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing and market abuse, sanctions, and money laundering. Gareth advises and represents both corporates and individuals. (Dip., 1978, Polytechnic University of Central London) Polly Ehrman joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department . Polly advises clients on derivatives referencing all asset classes, including equities, foreign exchanges, rates, commodities, and credit. Her primary areas of focus include transactional and regulatory advice with respect to strategic equity-linked transactions, structured transactions relating to emerging markets, insolvency and dispute resolution issues relating to derivatives, derivatives-related regulations at the European and UK level, hedging transactions that relate to M&A, leveraged finance, and note issuances, as well as Sharia-compliant transactions. (L.P.C., 2008, College of Law)