Financial Institutions Enforcement

John Driscoll
Managing Director, Senior Counsel and Head of Litigation, Enforcement & Investigations
Société Générale

John Driscoll is Managing Director, Senior Counsel and Head of Litigation, Enforcement & Investigations for Société Générale in New York.  He has responsibility for litigation and governmental and internal investigations for SocGen and affiliates in the Americas.  This business includes SocGen’s New York branch activity, as well as the activities of its Broker-Dealer, Futures Commission Merchant, and US-registered Swap Dealer.  John has been involved in the full range of litigation and enforcement matters affecting financial institutions, both US-focused and internationally.  Prior to joining SocGen, John was a litigator at Debevoise & Plimpton.  He clerked for the Hon. John M. Walker, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and received his law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  He received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College.

• Graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
• Graduate of Notre Dame Law School.
• Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard L. Voorhees- Federal District Court Judge for the Western District of North Carolina.
• Associate at Jones Day in Washington DC.
• Assistant United States Attorney- Western District of North Carolina.
• Partner at McGuireWoods.
• Managing Counsel- Enforcement and Government Investigations- Wells Fargo (current).

Alison Kellett is Head of Group Dispute Resolution (GDR) for the UK, Channel Islands, and Nordic Countries at BNP Paribas, encompassing both Legal Investigations and Litigation and Legal Financial Security.  The Bank has a presence in 73 countries with more than 198,000 employees. In her wide ranging role, Alison covers all aspects of the Group’s activities including supporting the Bank’s global hub of its corporate and institutional banking business based in London. Alison joined BNPP just prior to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and so has had active involvement in all aspects of the fall-out from the financial crisis and the regulatory investigations and ensuing class actions which have affected the financial services industry over that time, including LIBOR, EURIBOR, CDS and FX.  Alison sits on the Bank’s GDR Management Committee.

Prior to joining BNPP in 2009, Alison worked for 10 years at Clifford Chance, in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. During that time she was an integral member of the team on the leading English mis-selling case of Springwell Navigation Corporation –v- JP Morgan Chase.

Before entering the legal profession, Alison worked as a Clinical Research Associate in the pharmaceutical industry. Alison is also a Solicitor Member of the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal for the UK and Deputy Chair of Governors for a prep school in Surrey.

Shona graduated from the University College Dublin with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Spanish. She has a background in medical, insurance and financial administration. In her spare time, Shona loves to travel and enjoys planning trips all around the world.